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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
America drops what is known as the Mother Of All Bombs | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
on so-called Islamic State, in Afghanistan. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Seen here in tests, it is the largest non-nuclear device | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
the US has used in conflict, and targeted a network | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
America drops what is known as the Mother Of All Bombs | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
on so-called Islamic State, in Afghanistan. | :00:34. | :00:34. | |
Seen here in tests, it is the largest non-nuclear device | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
the US has used in conflict, and targeted a network | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Also this morning: Unions representing 500,000 teachers claim | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
schools in England face the worst cuts for 20 years, | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
even though the Government says it is spending a record amount. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Two bank holidays just two weeks apart means two million of us | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
This morning, I'm taking a look at whether it is any cheaper | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Good morning from the Crucible in Sheffield. All the current stars | :01:08. | :01:26. | |
will be coming into this famous theatre to have a party and look | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
back on four decades, later on. I will be inside when they open up | :01:32. | :01:32. | |
shortly. How Hull is becoming | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
a city of art lovers. We will be live in the | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
UK's City of Culture. Good morning. The extended weekend | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
will be a little bit on the cool side, with the clouds they are, and | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
some rain here as well. There will be a decent amount of dry and sunny | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
weather to go with it. I will have your full Easter forecast in around | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
about 15 minutes. First, our main story: The US | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
military have dropped the biggest non-nuclear weapon ever used | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
in combat, in Afghanistan. President Trump described | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
the mission, to destroy a series of underground caves thought to have | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
been used by so-called Islamic State, as a very | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
successful mission. Our North America editor | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
John Sopel has more. This is the GBU-43, | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
also known as a MOAB, a Massive Ordnance Air Blast, | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
or as it is more commonly known, The largest non-nuclear | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
weapon ever deployed. The target - so-called | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
Islamic State in Afghanistan. We targeted a system of tunnels | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
and caves that ISIS fighters used to move around freely, | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
making it easier for them to target US military advisers | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
and Afghan forces in the area. It is turning out to be a busy time | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
for the commander-in-chief. We are so proud of our military, | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
and it was another successful event. The tunnels and caves that were used | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
by the Taliban over 15 years ago This bomb was dropped | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
on a complex tunnel network in Nangarhar Province, | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
close to the Pakistan border, where a member of US special forces | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
was killed last week. But the actions brought a furious | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
tweet from Afghanistan's former It is not just the dropping | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
of a massive bomb on Afghanistan. In just over a week, | :03:13. | :03:24. | |
President Trump has ordered the missile strike on Syria, | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
a naval battle group to head to the Korean Peninsula, and he has | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
restated his commitment to NATO. Some of Donald Trump's | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
supporters are asking, whatever happened | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
to the isolationist, America-first President | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
of the inauguration? Unions representing 500,000 teachers | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
say schools in England are facing the worst real-term | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
cuts for 20 years. The NUT and NASUWT will discuss | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
what they say is a crisis in funding when they meet today | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
at their Easter conferences. But the Government says ?40 billion | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
is being spent on schools this year, Our education correspondent | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Gillian Hargreaves reports. St Martin's School in Essex | :04:04. | :04:17. | |
is a good school, but even here, it | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
has become increasingly difficult to recruit staff, | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
particularly in specialist subjects. At one stage, they had a science | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
teacher vacancy for more But there are also shortages | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
in maths and modern languages. I look at all the people that | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
are teaching in those areas, and the number of people that | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
are due to retire over the next ten years, and also the number of people | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
that are coming in that aren't actually a specialist in the subject | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
area that they're teaching, and I think that really this | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
is the thin end of the wedge. Teachers are gathering | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
for their conferences at a time There have been widespread protests | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
from parents and schools who say without more money, class sizes | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
will go up and teaching posts The Government points out ?40 | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
billion is being spent on schools this year, the highest | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
cash figure ever. But teachers say that hasn't taken | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
into account rising costs, like pay, | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
pensions, and the running The funding pressure is also | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
beginning to hit parents, something of a concern | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
to the unions. Half of parents are saying | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
they're making at least one financial contribution | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
to the school's funds, in order to "enhance resources", | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
whatever that means, And many parents are | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
finding that even the cost of a school uniform is something | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
which they can no longer afford. There is also much disquiet | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
about Government plans to introduce Teachers argue money set aside | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
for them would be better spent However, the Government says this | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
new wave of grammars would benefit Foreign ministers from Syria | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
and Iran are holding talks with their Russian | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
counterpart in Moscow today. It comes a day after the Syrian | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
leader denied using chemical weapons President Assad said evidence had | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
been fabricated to give the US an excuse to attack a Syrian | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
government airfield. Nigeria says it is actively | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
negotiating with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to free | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
the Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
three years ago today. Demonstrators will hold events later | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
today in the capital, Abuja, and in Lagos, | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
to mark the anniversary. Almost 200 of the girls | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
are still being held in captivity. Our Nigeria correspondent | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
Martin Patience reports. They were kidnapped as schoolgirls, | :06:29. | :06:45. | |
but will now be young women. Three years ago today, the students | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
preparing for final exams were abducted from this school. The | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
Islamist extremist of Boko Haram oppose western education. They | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
loaded the girls onto trucks, and then drove them into the darkness. | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
The mass kidnapping shone a spotlight on the brutal Boko Haram | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
insurgency, which has killed thousands and forced millions to | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
flee their homes in north-east Nigeria. The abductions sparked | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
international condemnation, and led to the campaign Bring Back Power | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
Girls. And then, late last year, joyous scenes. -- Our Girls. More | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
than 20 of the schoolgirls were freed, following negotiations. Now, | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Nigeria's president says talks are ongoing with a Boko Haram, and that | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
he will bend over backwards to secure the release of all the | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
remaining students. As security removes, slowly children are once | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
again getting an education, but abductions are still taking place. | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
For every Chibok schoolgirl, many more children have been kidnapped | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
either militants. -- by the militants. | :08:05. | :08:05. | |
The lawyer of a man who suffered a broken nose and lost two teeth | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
when he was dragged off a plane in Chicago says it is likely | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
he will take legal action against United Airlines. | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
Several passengers filmed Dr David Dao being forced off | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
the flight, bloodied and injured, by Chicago aviation police, | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
after he had refused to leave the overbooked flight. | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
At a press conference, Mr Dao's daughter said it has been | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
What happened to my Dad should never happen to any human being, | :08:26. | :08:35. | |
We were horrified, and shocked and sickened, to learn what had | :08:36. | :08:47. | |
happened to him, and to see what had happened to him. | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
The Labour Party says it would give the UK's financial regulator, | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
the Financial Conduct Authority, new powers to stop banks shutting | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Labour says hundreds of such closures have | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
The Conservatives said their support for small businesses, | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
which includes start-up loans, had helped 40,000 firms. | :09:04. | :09:16. | |
A clean-up operation is under way in New Zealand, | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
after a powerful storm swept across the country. | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
Cyclone Cook was expected to be the worst storm | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
Hawke's Bay on the east coast was worst-hit, | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
with hundreds of families forced from their homes, | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
road closures, and downed powerlines. | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
The accommodation booking service Airbnb is improving the security | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
of its app and website, after a BBC investigation found | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
people's homes had been burgled by criminals using stolen accounts. | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
The scammers changed some personal details, | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
Airbnb said it had already been working on the changes. | :09:41. | :09:53. | |
It is expected to one of the busiest days on the roads today, | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
with around 20 million car journeys expected over the Easter weekend. | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Millions more will be heading abroad, as they make the most of two | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
bank holidays in the space of two weeks. | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Catriona Renton is at a busy road in East London this morning, | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
I am going to say busy, but not that busy yet. Not that easy yet, and | :10:10. | :10:26. | |
this is the A102, it is usually one of the busiest roads in London and | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
it joins London to the network of motorways so now is obviously a good | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
time to get away if you want to. There is barely a car on the roads | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
here at the moment but it will get busier throughout the day. 20 | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
million people, as you say, 20 million car journey is expected over | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
this weekend, and to give you an idea of what that means today, that | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
will be around 15% more cars on the road than normal. Now, the company | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
that supplies this data say that you can expect on the major motorways, | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
at the pinch points, that your journey could take twice as long as | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
normal. Those pinch points between 10am and 2pm, so they suggest | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
avoiding those if you can. Whereas at off to? 6.6 million people are | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
going to have a night away somewhere in the UK. But not everyone is going | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
to have a staycation. Today will be one of the busiest days of the | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
airports, it was around 2 million people will be heading overseas. | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
Spain is still the favourite destination. It is a different | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
picture on the railways. Network Rail appreciate there are fewer | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
passengers usually use the trains on bank holidays so this is an | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
opportunity for them to get some work done. There will be 200 | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
engineering project affecting trains from London, Manchester, laugh, | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
Manchester and Glasgow. You should check your roots before you go -- | :11:53. | :12:02. | |
Bath. Thank you very much indeed for explaining all of that. Of course | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
the trains are quieter at the weekend, but slower. | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
Nasa says one of Saturn's moons, known as Enceladus, may now be | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
the best place to look for life beyond earth. | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
Samples of the waters erupting from the moon's surface suggest it | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
has all the conditions needed for life. | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
The discovery was made through Nasa's Cassini probe, | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
which has been exploring Saturn since 2004. | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
It always gets people excited, of course, that tantalising prospect. | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
We will be discussing later in the programme how close we are, to that. | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
It is a possibility. We are not sure about it yet, are we? We are a | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
little bit lonely this morning. No Mike this morning, he is at the | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
Crucible ahead of the start of the world Snooker Championships. I am | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
waiting my turn on the table. I think for me it would be a long | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
time, because my opponents will dominate. This is it, the iconic | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
arena of the Crucible. 40 years of Snooker World Championship mammaries | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
staged here. They are still getting the table is ready for this year's | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Championships, which start tomorrow. What strikes me is how intimate this | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
arena is. To celebrate four decades, they are getting a lot of the former | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
champions and current stars to come down the green carpet with some | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
fans, they will relive some of the best moments of the last 40 years. | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
You can watch it on the red button on BBC iPlayer. They arrive at 5pm | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
and the show starts at 6pm this evening. | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
And the draw has been made for the first round of | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
the World Snooker Championship, which starts tomorrow | :13:49. | :13:49. | |
Defending champion Mark Selby will face qualifier Fergal O'Brien, | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
and five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan will play another | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
Elsewhere in sport, it was a frustrating night | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
for Manchester United, as they dominated the first leg | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
of their Uefa Cup quarter-final with Anderlecht, but could only draw. | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
Jose Mourinho's side went ahead before the break, | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
through Henrikh Mkhitaryan, but couldn't hold onto the lead. | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
Great Britain have made it two medals in two days at the cycling | :14:16. | :14:28. | |
Track World Championships, in Hong Kong. | :14:29. | :14:29. | |
Chris Latham won a bronze in the men's scratch race, | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
It is his first international medal as a senior rider. | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
Warrington are now unbeaten in three matches, as they try to recover | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
from their terrible start to the season in Super League. | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
So, yes, being inside the Crucible, how big are the tables, when you are | :14:43. | :14:59. | |
used to playing pool in the pub, or maybe snooker at home with the kids | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
on the small tables, and also how intimate it is. I have a couple of | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
volunteers. If I am playing a shot, they are breathing down my neck. So | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
close to the action. It could be very offputting. All of those eyes | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
on you. And then of course the TV audience as well. Plenty more from | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
you through the morning including Mark Selby at 8:30am. Are those | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
people OK, I am worried about them? They are trying to stare at me, so | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
that I can feel like it is playing a point at the World Championship. | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
Give me a hard stare. Very good, thank you. What you couldn't see at | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
home was Matt with the weather this morning watching the whole thing in | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
fascination. I could see you thinking, what on earth? I was | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
worried for him with those two behind. The Easter weekend is up on | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
us, it is an extended break for many. The weekend forecast is mixed. | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
It is not horrendous by any means. It will be on the cool side with the | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
cloud but when the sun comes out you will feel the benefit of the | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
sunshine overhead. Some gardeners will be happy with this, a little | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
bit of rain at times. Where is the rain? Falling in the form of showers | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
in southern Scotland, Northern Ireland, northern England and the | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Midlands, south of that a chilly start with sunny spells breaking | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
through the cloud. Bright conditions in Scotland and a breeze blowing | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
with one or two showers. That will continue into the afternoon. | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
Probably most bright in eastern Scotland if you are heading out. | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
Northern Ireland is bright after a wet spell early in the afternoon. | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
The wet weather as it clears means north-west England, north and west | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
Wales, showers turned to persistent rain in the afternoon. It won't be | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
pleasant with the breeze as well. Away from that much of central and | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
southern England and East Anglia, some of the most dry weather with | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
breaks in the cloud. Temperatures may be one degree above yesterday. | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
The wet weather for northern England and Wales were pushed southwards, | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
giving the garden is a welcome step rather than drink overnight. That | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
will clear through. With skies clearing, showers in the north, it | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
will be cold for Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern England, a touch | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
of frost and maybe even a touch of ice in Scotland on quite a windy day | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
with sunshine and showers. Saturday is only by and large. Showers mainly | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
for Scotland. One or two elsewhere. Most will be lucky enough to avoid | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
them. Dry with sunny spells throughout. Tomorrow you will notice | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
it will feel cold in the breeze and in the cloudy moments. If you are | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
thinking of heading to the Scottish hills tomorrow, make note, it may | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
feel like a spring in the valleys, winter on the peaks with gale force | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
winds, so the windchill and a little snow around. Please, bear that in | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
mind. The wind will ease into Sunday but low pressure will work in on | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
Sunday. After a bright day on Saturday, largely cloudy on Easter | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
day. Outbreaks of rain for Northern Ireland, the Midlands, East Anglia | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
moving east. Fairly erratic with some dry weather around and top and | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
tail the best of the dry, brightest and sunny weather and back to | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
something sunny on Monday with light wind, one or two showers here or | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
there. Hopefully you will manage to avoid them and if you do in the | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
sunshine with light wind it will feel a touch more warm. Thank you. | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
The main stories this morning: The US military unleashes | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
the largest non-nuclear bomb ever to be used in conflict, | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
targeting so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan. | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
Schools in England are facing the worst real term cuts for 20 | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
years, according to unions representing half a million | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
The government says it is spending a record amount on education. | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
Sean is here to talk about the Good Friday papers. And we will start | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
with the front pages. Yes, the front of the Sun, this is our lead story, | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
you can see they are calling it, this is how it is known in the US | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
military, the mother of all bombs, the world's biggest non- nuclear | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
bomb so far used in combat. Assessments made as to the impact as | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
it was dropped in Afghanistan by the US military. Lots of papers leading | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
on that story. Some of them cannot agree. The front of the Times have | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
their own story on what they say is a secret plan to destroy cancer | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
medicine. What I want to show you is a picture of the Prime Minister, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
Theresa May, who you can see yesterday performing a duty on | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
behalf of the Queen graduating cadets at the Royal Academy in | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
Sandhurst. Apparently they played Star Wars music and made everybody | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
giggle. The front of the Mirror is dominated by images of the bomb, | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
Trump drops the mother of all bombs, and the Express talking about cost | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
of holidays. Set to fall 20% according to them. Talk about that | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
this morning, we will look at a cost abroad, you probably have pay for | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
your flights and accommodation. When you get there, it is cheaper than it | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
was a year ago when you get to Spain, Portugal, Croatia. Whether or | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
not you take the pound into account, what has happened is that these | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
areas have been so competitive now for the tourists to go there that | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
the cost can be a lot cheaper than they have been for a while. Really? | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
Last it was really expensive. Once you take flights and accommodation | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
into account, that can start to bump up the price. And if anyone has a | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
nice picture to send us off where they are this weekend, because... | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
Somewhere sunny. Somewhere little sunnier than in here. So if you are | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
going somewhere, sent in a picture. You can get a lot from a picture. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
You can judge how much people are spending. And we talk about a fiver, | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
what about this one, the indestructible fivers, police | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
thought they were fake but the hologram had rubbed off. So, where | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
it was before, they found some fivers without it. They thought, | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
blimey, have people been forging them already? Someone has put effort | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
into trying to get rid of the hologram. Goodness me. The front of | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
the Daily Telegraph, oh, you have the inside page, there is an | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
interesting photograph I think you might want to see today. Can we see | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
this? The new lineup for The Great British Bake Off. We knew the names. | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
That is the image, people can look at it and think, I can see that, or | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
think what they want, on the inside of quite a view of the papers. They | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
all have their little puns. The Sun has Bake to the future. And what do | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
you think of the colours? I like the yellow on the right. They are | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
holding a cake. There is a really clever, subtle thing going on, there | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
is a strawberry motif a look at Noel Fielding's jumper. It is warm, and | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
friendly. I like it. Thank you. See you later on. | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
It's been almost a year since so-called legal highs | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
were banned but recent news coverage of people openly using the synthetic | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
drug Spice in public, means it's under the spotlight | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
Now paramedics say the unpredictable effects of the substances on users | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
is making their job harder and putting them at risk of assault. | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
Dan Whitworth has more on this story. | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
A warning, his report contains images of the effects | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
In a park in Leeds on a sunny weekday lunchtime two friends are | :23:15. | :23:30. | |
about to take Spice. You blackout Ann Conlon level what you have done. | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
Spice was banned by the government nearly a year ago along with other | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
so-called highs, but that doesn't bother Derek. Since the ban came in | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
it is easier to get hold of and it is cheaper as well. We watch as in a | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
couple of minutes Adam and Derek descent into what for some users has | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
been described as a zombielike state. People who use Spice often in | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
broad daylight sometimes in city parks just like this one have told | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
us despite the ban is still readily available and very cheap. And one | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
user has even told us it is more difficult to try to come off than | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
heroin. It is a familiar problem for charities like Lighthouse. Some | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
people here have struggled to stop using Spice. I was a heroin user 17 | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
years ago. I have been clean for 17 years. I have been smoking Spice for | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
nine years and it is stronger. Three years ago that is in my life started | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
with Spice. It is not good. I can't eat. I have lost a lot of weight. It | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
has ruined my life. Other charities said last year's ban hasn't curbed | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
use. It has gone underground if you like. We consistently provide a safe | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
service here. Unfortunately, if you have someone who has had some Spice | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
and they are volatile, that can mean danger for us and for the residents. | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
Police in Manchester say they dealt with around 60 incidents involving | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
the drug last weekend alone. While the College of paramedics which | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
represents 11,000 emergency workers across the UK says the use of | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
synthetic drugs is making treating people even harder. Spitting, | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
biting, punching, kicking, those things are what paramedics have to | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
put up with. It is important for people to realise that this | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
substance, whatever it is you are taking, it could kill you. | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
Unfortunately that is what we are seeing, kids are dying. The | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
government says it will publish a drug strategy shortly and that | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
stopping the use of synthetic drugs like Spice and it says anyone caught | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
using these kind of drugs already face up to five years in prison. | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
Later in the programme we will speak with a | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
former police officer on how to deal with this problem. | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
Still to come on Breakfast: How Hull is bringing out the hidden art lover | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
We'll be live in the Uk's City of Culture. | :25:59. | :29:25. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :29:26. | :29:39. | |
We will bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment. | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
But also on Breakfast this morning: As 2 million of us prepare to head | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
overseas this Easter weekend, we will be finding out how much it | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
will cost you when you get there - less than you may think. | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
How would your boss feel if you brought your pet into work? | :29:57. | :29:59. | |
We will be hearing why more and more companies are allowing dogs | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
And forget Martians - the search for alien life | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
Scientists will tell us why one of the ringed planet's moons | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
But now, a summary of this morning's main news: | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
It is being reported 36 members of so-called Islamic state | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
were killed after the United States dropped what was described | :30:20. | :30:21. | |
as the 'Mother Of All Bombs', in Afghanistan. | :30:22. | :30:23. | |
The weapon is the largest non-nuclear bomb to have ever been | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
The target was a network of underground tunnels. | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
The attack has been condemned by the former Afghan president Hamid | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
Unions representing 500,000 teachers say schools in England are facing | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
the worst real-term cuts for 20 years. | :30:38. | :30:39. | |
The NUT and NASUWT will discuss what they say is a crisis in funding | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
when they meet today at their Easter conferences. | :30:44. | :30:45. | |
But the Government says ?40 billion is being spent on schools this year, | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
Unions say schools' staff shortages are increasing, | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
and there is a reduction in vocational subjects. | :30:53. | :31:06. | |
I think funding is going to be the theme that dominates the | :31:07. | :31:13. | |
conversations, because around the country class sizes are going up, we | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
are seeing arts, dance, drama, music being cut, education being cut back. | :31:18. | :31:24. | |
We are seeing schools that are being sent letters to parents to ask them | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
for money, to try and make up for the gap the government is causing in | :31:29. | :31:30. | |
school budgets. Foreign ministers from Syria | :31:31. | :31:39. | |
and Iran are holding talks with their Russian | :31:40. | :31:42. | |
counterpart in Moscow today. It comes a day after the Syrian | :31:43. | :31:44. | |
leader denied using chemical weapons President Assad said evidence had | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
been fabricated to give the US an excuse to attack a Syrian | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
government airfield. Nigeria says it is actively | :31:52. | :31:53. | |
negotiating with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to free | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
the Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped | :31:57. | :31:58. | |
three years ago today. More than 270 students were seized | :31:59. | :32:00. | |
from their dormitories, and almost 200 of the girls | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
are still being held in captivity. Demonstrators will hold events later | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
today in the capital, Abuja, and in Lagos, | :32:07. | :32:08. | |
to mark the anniversary. A future Labour government says it | :32:09. | :32:10. | |
would bring in a law preventing More than 1,000 local | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
branches closed in the UK Labour says lending to small | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
businesses decreases in areas where banks close, | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
but the Conservatives said their support for small | :32:22. | :32:23. | |
businesses, including start-up A clean-up operation | :32:24. | :32:25. | |
is under way in New Zealand, after a powerful storm | :32:26. | :32:49. | |
swept across the country. Cyclone Cook was expected | :32:50. | :32:51. | |
to be the worst storm Hawke's Bay on the east | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
coast was worst-hit, with hundreds of families | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
forced from their homes, road closures, | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
and downed powerlines. It is one of the busiest travel | :33:01. | :33:01. | |
weekends of the year, Around 20 million car journeys | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
will be made on the UK's roads by Monday, with trips on major | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
routes expected to take up The M25, M6 and M5 are expected | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
to be worst affected. Up to two million are expected | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
to fly away from the gridlock for a trip overseas, with Spain | :33:17. | :33:19. | |
being the top destination. I wonder if it is too late just to | :33:20. | :33:31. | |
book a flight and go? You can do that any time. Where are you going | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
to go? Spain, obviously. It was an egg-cellent day | :33:36. | :33:36. | |
for animals at a zoo in Florida. Not to miss out on the holiday fun, | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
keepers organised an Easter egg Rhinos, zebras and elephants feasted | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
on a special lunch made up of grass, The rhinos seemed a bit fooled | :33:44. | :33:51. | |
by the decorated fruit, but after plenty of sniffing | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
and licking, they seemed I am not surprised they are | :33:56. | :34:13. | |
confused. Why is the watermelon blue, they are thinking? | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
To Mike now, who is at the Crucible, in Sheffield, ahead of the start | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
Good morning to you. Good morning. I need a name. What do you think? | :34:20. | :34:34. | |
Pocket Rocket or shall? I am deep inside the Crucible, the dressing | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
rooms are just there, and this is the Walker players have been doing | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
for 40 years at this famous theatre -- Pocket Rocket Bushell. It is not | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
as famous as the walk at Wimbledon, but the cameraman is doing well. It | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
is a tight squeeze because it is a walking theatre. They normally walk | :34:51. | :34:53. | |
out with their cues, the commentary box that, in the big moment where | :34:54. | :34:57. | |
you take a deep left and walk down the red carpet to the applause of | :34:58. | :35:04. | |
900 needy people in here. And as I say, they have in doing this for 40 | :35:05. | :35:07. | |
years and they are commemorating that because a lot of champions and | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
former stars will do this walk together with the fans to look back | :35:12. | :35:17. | |
on four decades. Down to the table, and the trophy itself, which dates | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
back to 1927. So 90 years of champions on that. Of course, | :35:22. | :35:23. | |
defending champion Mark Selby. Elsewhere in sport, | :35:24. | :35:25. | |
it was a frustrating night for Manchester United, | :35:26. | :35:27. | |
as they dominated the first leg of their Uefa Cup quarter-final with | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
Anderlecht, but could only draw. Jose Mourinho's side went | :35:31. | :35:33. | |
ahead before the break, thanks to this goal | :35:34. | :35:35. | |
from Henrikh Mkhitaryan. But they missed some good chances | :35:36. | :35:37. | |
to extend their lead, and five minutes from time, | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
Leander Dendoncker grabbed The second leg is at | :35:41. | :35:42. | |
Old Trafford next week. If you arrive into a situation where | :35:43. | :35:58. | |
mathematically it is not possible, top four, then easy decision. Rest | :35:59. | :36:05. | |
them, and go with them in Europa League if you are still in | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
competition. But at this moment we are in a position where we have two | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
matches in hand. If we win both matches we are direct into the top | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
four. We have to fight for every game. | :36:19. | :36:19. | |
The six-man shortlist for PFA player of the year is out, | :36:20. | :36:21. | |
with Chelsea's N'Golo Kante the favourite. | :36:22. | :36:23. | |
He helped Leicester lift the Premier League trophy last | :36:24. | :36:26. | |
season, and looks on course to do the same with Chelsea this year, | :36:27. | :36:29. | |
He scored for them in the quarter-finals. | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
Also in contention are Eden Hazard, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Harry Kane, | :36:34. | :36:36. | |
After Elinor Barker won silver in the women's race on Wednesday, | :36:37. | :36:45. | |
Chris Latham won bronze in the men's scratch race at the cycling | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
Track World Championships, in Hong Kong. | :36:50. | :36:50. | |
It is his first international medal as a senior rider, | :36:51. | :36:53. | |
In Super League, Warrington are now unbeaten in three matches, | :36:54. | :37:03. | |
as they try to recover from their terrible start | :37:04. | :37:05. | |
They ran in three tries against bottom club Widnes, | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
the second from Jack Hughes, as they won 19-10. | :37:10. | :37:19. | |
The draw has now been made for the first round in the last name on | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
here, defending champion Mark Selby has been drawn against Fergal | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
O'Brien, who was involved in the longest ever frame on Wednesday. Two | :37:30. | :37:33. | |
hours in three minutes to make it through to the main draw. In the | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
past on this trophy we have winners from England, Scotland, Wales, | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Canada and Australia but | :37:42. | :37:44. | |
not as yet the Chinese name on there. They are getting close. Ding | :37:45. | :37:49. | |
Junhui was the runner-up a year ago and it has been claimed that China | :37:50. | :37:52. | |
will soon be the big superpower Snooker, dominating the titles. | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
In a nation of over 1.3 billion people, one man is mobbed wherever | :37:57. | :38:12. | |
he goes. Ding Junhui is treated like a movie or pop star. He is one of | :38:13. | :38:16. | |
the most recognised faces across the whole of Asia, because this is the | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
man who sparked a Chinese snooker revolution. To escape such constant | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
attention, he moved to Sheffield, home of the World Championship, | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
where he can lead a relatively normal life, unrecognised, well, | :38:31. | :38:35. | |
most of the time. Good luck. Thank you. I met him this week for a frame | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
at the city's Star Academy where his private practice room is a world | :38:41. | :38:43. | |
away from all the attention. The 5 million followers on social media | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
and the 210 million who watched his run to the final last year on | :38:48. | :38:54. | |
Chinese state TV. The sound is wonderful, isn't it? You like that | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
sound. I am proud. The little kids come and ask me how to be like you, | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
and I am very pleased to answer the questions. So yes, I know it is how | :39:04. | :39:12. | |
boring when you practise. It is very lonely. He is certainly not learn | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
any more in Sheffield. Along with fellow star Marco Fu, the set the | :39:18. | :39:23. | |
trend. Thanks to the likes of Ding and Marco Fu there is now a steady | :39:24. | :39:29. | |
stream of players coming to dedicate themselves to training at these | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
academies specially for Chinese players. Also good Chinese | :39:33. | :39:40. | |
community, lots of Chinese restaurants, they love it. It has | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
become a mecca for Chinese snooker players. They all want to come here | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
and play. It feels like a second home here. It is easy to see what | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
China is the new foreskin is liquor. Massive investment in facilities | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
back home, and 70 million people now playing cue sports every week. In | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
five years I think Chinese players will take over, as the standards are | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
very high at the moment, but they can only improve from now on. Ding | :40:08. | :40:13. | |
's success is rubbing off on so many. Hit it in the middle? Yes! | :40:14. | :40:21. | |
Great tutor. He has already won the UK championship and the Masters, but | :40:22. | :40:24. | |
ever since he started playing pool in China, aged eight, the world | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
title has been his burning ambition. On TV I see Steve Davis, they are | :40:31. | :40:37. | |
all legends in snooker. I think I want to win these titles when I grow | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
up. And it seems only a matter of time | :40:41. | :40:51. | |
before he is world champion. He is one of those Chinese rising stars. | :40:52. | :40:54. | |
And if you want the documentary about Ding Junhui, it is now | :40:55. | :40:57. | |
on the BBC iPlayer, and it is called Enter the Dragon: China's Snooker | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
Thank you very much. You look quite the part sitting there. You really | :41:02. | :41:10. | |
do look like a Snooker pro yourself. We will talk to you later. Thank you | :41:11. | :41:12. | |
very much. It has being described | :41:13. | :41:13. | |
as the 'Mother Of All Bombs'. The largest non-nuclear weapon ever | :41:14. | :41:16. | |
used in combat by the US has been dropped on a network of underground | :41:17. | :41:19. | |
tunnels in Afghanistan. It is thought they were | :41:20. | :41:22. | |
being used by so-called The weapon was first tested in 2003, | :41:23. | :41:24. | |
but until yesterday, Michael Williams is the director | :41:25. | :41:28. | |
of international relations at New York University, | :41:29. | :41:36. | |
and joins us now. Good morning to you. I am actually | :41:37. | :41:48. | |
going to ask you that is my first question. Why this on, and why now? | :41:49. | :41:56. | |
Well, it seems to have been dictated by military necessity. President | :41:57. | :41:59. | |
Trump said at a press conference not too long ago that it basically | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
enables the military to do what it needs to do, is very hands off | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
compared with President Obama and we know from Central command that this | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
area was being targeted by Afghan forces. The Afghan National Army | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
ground forces were unable to take this area from the Isis combat and | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
who were in the region, so that called the US military support, and | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
the US military doesn't have many combat and ground troops but they do | :42:24. | :42:26. | |
have a power and this particular weapon with the blast radius and the | :42:27. | :42:29. | |
power it brings was designed specifically to take out the shallow | :42:30. | :42:33. | |
tunnels and shallow bunker structures. It is not a deep bunker | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
destroying weapon, but it is the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
the arsenal. So it seems to have been dictated purely by an | :42:43. | :42:46. | |
necessity, from what we know. And the US has not confirmed much detail | :42:47. | :42:50. | |
of the strike, not a huge amount of detail, but a local official has | :42:51. | :42:55. | |
confirmed to the BBC that many IS militants were killed, allegedly | :42:56. | :42:58. | |
including the brother of a senior leader. We have also been told there | :42:59. | :43:03. | |
were no civilian casualties. Well, it is good there were no civilian | :43:04. | :43:06. | |
casualties. The US military generally tries to avoid that, it is | :43:07. | :43:11. | |
under the protocol. The last administration was very intent on | :43:12. | :43:14. | |
being quite involved in trying to avoid as much collateral damage as | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
possible. The President now seems to be much more inclined to let the | :43:20. | :43:23. | |
military do they need to do. If you look at... They say about three | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
dozen combat atoms were killed in this attack, quite expensive given | :43:28. | :43:34. | |
the weapon at hand --, since. It is not going to fix the situation on | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
the ground, and Isis is a symptom of the problems in the wider region of | :43:39. | :43:42. | |
the Middle East as well. So it may set back military objectives of Isis | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
are ultimately it is only one part of a much larger puzzle. Talking | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
about President Trump for a moment, this is in complete contrast to his | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
predator so, isn't it? Because many military chiefs have expressed | :43:57. | :43:59. | |
frustration at the end of President Obama's term, and as you say, at | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
this point it seems that Trump has taken advice from military leaders | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
and in a sense handed much more control over to them. Yes, well, the | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
new administration has several other active or prior military combat and | :44:12. | :44:22. | |
is, in the ranks. -- combatants. General McMaster, General Mattis, so | :44:23. | :44:29. | |
they certainly favour that sort of advice. And he is much more hands | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
off and definitely is much more in favour of large acts, as we know, to | :44:35. | :44:41. | |
demonstrate US military power. And this is a departure. Maybe part of | :44:42. | :44:45. | |
it is signalling to other parts of the world where there may be issues, | :44:46. | :44:49. | |
but at the same time it is a relatively erratic policy, that | :44:50. | :44:52. | |
doesn't seem to have a larger strategy behind the actions, which | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
is to strike in Syria, or the moving of US naval assets closer to the | :44:57. | :44:58. | |
Korean peninsula. Here's Matt with a look | :44:59. | :45:01. | |
at this morning's weather. It is Good Friday, bank holiday | :45:02. | :45:14. | |
weekend. How is it looking? Not bad at all. Quite mixed, it has to be | :45:15. | :45:22. | |
said. Started on a good note. Glorious in Aberdeenshire. Sunshine | :45:23. | :45:25. | |
top and tail at the moment. For most it will be a cloudy day. As you can | :45:26. | :45:31. | |
see, cloud around, sunshine breaking through. South-east Wales and | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
northern Scotland. In between, producing rain, northern England and | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
Wales pushing east. There is dry weather in between. A damp spell for | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
Northern Ireland into the start of the afternoon. If we look at four | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
o'clock, sunny spells breaking through and sunny spells through the | :45:53. | :45:57. | |
day for northern Scotland with showers pushing in on a cool breeze. | :45:58. | :46:02. | |
Cloudy in northern England. The west of the Pennines is persistent and | :46:03. | :46:06. | |
heavy into the afternoon, as it will in north and west Wales. The better | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
spell for you first thing. Southeast Wales, southern England, East | :46:13. | :46:16. | |
Anglia, it should be dry all day long with some sunny breaks. It | :46:17. | :46:19. | |
might even feel warmer than yesterday. The rain pushed | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
southwards and bring some of the gardens more of a sip than a drink | :46:25. | :46:29. | |
before the weather front clears. With the clear skies, cold air | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
pushing in, from the Midlands northwards, the chance of a touch of | :46:35. | :46:37. | |
frost, maybe even ice around with showers in northern Scotland. Quite | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
a cold day to come on Saturday. A cool breeze across the board. Sunny | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
conditions across the country on Saturday. Sunny on Saturday with one | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
or two showers. Many will have a predominantly dry day. Not | :46:53. | :46:58. | |
especially warm in the sunshine. Temperatures 9- 14 degrees. Cold on | :46:59. | :47:02. | |
the mountains of Scotland. Here if you are planning to go to the hills, | :47:03. | :47:06. | |
not a great day with gale force winds, subzero temperatures, leading | :47:07. | :47:09. | |
to a severe windchill and some snow showers around as well. The wind | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
will ease and the cold air cut off into Sunday. Sunday we are back in | :47:16. | :47:19. | |
cloudy weather as weather front push in. Northern Scotland and the south | :47:20. | :47:24. | |
of England, temperatures could get into the teens. In between, lots of | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
cloud and occasional rain but still some dry mornings around. Back to | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
some sunny weather into Easter Monday one or two showers and with | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
winds on Easter Monday, get yourself in the sunshine, especially in the | :47:40. | :47:42. | |
west - it should feel a little warmer, although it is still cold on | :47:43. | :47:46. | |
the eastern coast. There is something for everyone this weekend. | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
Thank you. There is a holiday theme emerging, obviously, because of the | :47:51. | :47:56. | |
day and we can. If you are watching this you are thinking about going | :47:57. | :48:03. | |
away. You might already be a way. It is possible. Going abroad Easter | :48:04. | :48:10. | |
weekend seems our luxury to me. Lots of people are doing it, it seems. | :48:11. | :48:17. | |
Today is the busiest day of travel. About two million of us | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
are choosing to head overseas. According to ABTA - | :48:22. | :48:24. | |
that's the Association of British Travel Agents - | :48:25. | :48:25. | |
two million British holidaymakers Spain is the UK's favourite foreign | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
holiday destination for the weekend. You'll have already forked | :48:29. | :48:32. | |
out for your flights but research from the Post Office | :48:33. | :48:35. | |
out today says that once you actually get to one | :48:36. | :48:38. | |
of the most popular spots, prices for basics, | :48:39. | :48:40. | |
so like sunscreen, beer and meals, Louise Hodges is a travel expert | :48:41. | :48:43. | |
with Travelzoo and joins me now. Morning, Louise. Delaying your bank | :48:44. | :48:58. | |
holiday for us. In terms of once you get there, people will be on their | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
way. Is there a big price difference in a resort in Spain or Greece to | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
the pint of beer and sunscreen when you arrive? It depends where you go. | :49:09. | :49:14. | |
If you look at Spain, you think about it in regions. I have looked | :49:15. | :49:18. | |
at pricing. Northern Spain is cheaper than southern Spain. When | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
people flock to the same resorts, prices go up. Less busy places will | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
be cheaper. Even in the country. We are at Good Friday morning. Will | :49:30. | :49:33. | |
there be people still booking their holiday for this weekend, because we | :49:34. | :49:38. | |
have had many years people being more prepared, that is when deals | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
are. There is a trend for the last-minute booking. When I spoke to | :49:43. | :49:46. | |
travel companies we work with we found half of people are booking for | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
holidays in the next ten days. That is something we haven't seen on that | :49:51. | :49:55. | |
scale before. It means people are booking this weekend, for the week | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
ahead and there are deals to Montenegro for ?300 per person for | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
holidays in April. We have another bank holiday in two weeks. Why is it | :50:04. | :50:10. | |
that we are leaving it so last-minute, so many people live at | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
last minute, when ten years ago there were loads of last-minute | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
deals. There was a long period of time when it was better to book in | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
advance. There might be a mini train. Brexit has something to do | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
with it. Post Article 50, people have taken a wait and see attitude | :50:29. | :50:34. | |
with a currency. People have seen it isn't as rocky as feared, so they | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
are booking in droves. If you look back to last year, people were | :50:40. | :50:42. | |
booking 69 month in advance. This year is different. In summer I | :50:43. | :50:46. | |
expect it will be different. And the weak pound might have an effect on | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
taste and where people go. Arrival numbers have been going up to | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
overseas countries. The numbers are not going down. People are picking | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
destinations that are affordable. All-inclusive is popular as well. | :51:01. | :51:06. | |
Thank you very much. People still booking even though it is Good | :51:07. | :51:11. | |
Friday morning. I just can't get my head around that. | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
Art may not be the first thing you think of when somebody mentions | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
Although it was the home of poet Philip Larkin, | :51:21. | :51:23. | |
it's probably fair to say that over the years its reputation has | :51:24. | :51:26. | |
Hull is the UK City of Culture and every day throughout 2017 it | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
People have already been flooding in to see what the city | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
Colin Paterson is there for us this morning reflecting on the highlights | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
so far, and to take a look at what is still to come. | :51:42. | :51:44. | |
I recognise that, that is the poppies. They are back. This is | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
Queen Victoria Square. Those are the ceramic poppies that were outside | :51:50. | :51:52. | |
the Tao of London in 2014, commemorating those who died in the | :51:53. | :51:55. | |
First World War. This is the Maritime Museum in Hull and many | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
other fishermen were involved in the First World War and their boats were | :52:00. | :52:02. | |
used to look for submarine. This is just one of many events happening | :52:03. | :52:06. | |
right now for the city of culture. This week Hull went 100 days as City | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
of Culture so we thought it was time for Breakfast to find out what has | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
been going on. I ended up in some unusual places. | :52:17. | :52:17. | |
The place would have spelt of carpet, overalls and a makeshift | :52:18. | :52:27. | |
fire. Hull, City of Culture, where even taxis have been turned into | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
theatres. And it raises up, pumping to handle. For the next three | :52:32. | :52:38. | |
months, Wayne Jackson is presenting a show to an audience of six in the | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
back of his father's cab. The show is only 20 minutes. I am doing at | :52:44. | :52:49. | |
eight times a day. It is demanding and challenging. And his dad is | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
loving it. It is absolutely excellent. It is combining my son's | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
work and mind. We have always been proud of him. Had you ever done | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
anything arty before? Nothing at all. Venues have been popping up all | :53:05. | :53:12. | |
over the city. This week's opening, Flood, performed on a floating stage | :53:13. | :53:17. | |
in the middle of a residential area. These people in their flats have | :53:18. | :53:20. | |
been looking on us for six weeks. We have been chatting to them, we have | :53:21. | :53:26. | |
been to local primer schools, we have a little boy called Jim who | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
comes every date on his way from school and asked what we are doing. | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
And who should arrived at that moment but Jim for his daily | :53:35. | :53:38. | |
inspection, sharing the title that the crew have bestowed on him. The | :53:39. | :53:45. | |
executive producer. Excellent, great title. It is a small example of how | :53:46. | :53:54. | |
people of all ages have been getting involved since Hull's year in the | :53:55. | :53:58. | |
spotlight began on January the first with a musical firework display. | :53:59. | :54:01. | |
Other highlights so far have included the visit of enormous | :54:02. | :54:05. | |
Scotch other Blade and the Humber Bridge being given a musical | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
accompaniment from Opera North. It has been a magical start to the year | :54:11. | :54:13. | |
with hundreds of residents getting involved and people from all over | :54:14. | :54:18. | |
coming to experience Hull. Those who have lived in Hull all their lives | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
have noticed a difference. It has brightened everything. It is lovely. | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
It is a pleasure to the hometown. And there is still eight and a half | :54:28. | :54:29. | |
months to go. Yes, 250 days to go. Let's find out | :54:30. | :54:39. | |
what can be expected. Here are the men who know about it. The BBC face | :54:40. | :54:49. | |
of Hull and Hull city culture. I was here on the first of January for | :54:50. | :54:54. | |
fireworks. What has been going on? Well, the poppies have been and | :54:55. | :55:00. | |
gone, the Blade has gone, there has been an amazing opening and it is | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
getting people through. This is the Art gallery that will host the | :55:05. | :55:11. | |
Turner prize. Yes,. Before that we have the sea of Hull painting. 3500 | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
people will turn up in the city centre naked, painted in blue. | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
Phenomenal. Did you go for it? I didn't. We have heard a little about | :55:23. | :55:30. | |
how people are getting involved. How have you gone about trying to make | :55:31. | :55:38. | |
sure these isn't elitist? We have reworked the CD-ROM, spent ?45 | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
million doing it up so that it is something we can enjoy and have | :55:44. | :55:51. | |
people here, we had 340,000 people from Hull. That is more than the | :55:52. | :55:55. | |
population -- the city centre. It shows how many people have come to | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
visit the city. That was a free festival people could take part in | :56:00. | :56:03. | |
an come along and see first hand. Many events like that all year and | :56:04. | :56:07. | |
the place is buzzing. If people want to find out what has been going on, | :56:08. | :56:13. | |
you have a special programme. Yes, the first episode will be on at | :56:14. | :56:20. | |
12:30pm on the News Channel, about my time in Iceland with John Grant, | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
bringing over the north Atlantic festival at the end of April. We | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
will catch up with a few other people. It will be great. That will | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
be on at 12:30pm and 8pm if you want to find out what is going on. We | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
will speak with more organisers and performance. We will talk to you | :56:40. | :56:41. | |
soon. I think if you want a last-minute | :56:42. | :56:48. | |
destination this Easter weekend, we have found one. Why not? | :56:49. | :56:52. | |
So, the Easter weekend not looking too bad, | :56:53. | :00:11. | |
yes, it is cooler than last weekend, but lots of dry weather around | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
America drops what is known as the 'Mother Of All Bombs' | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
on so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan. | :00:26. | :00:26. | |
Seen here in tests, it is the largest non-nuclear device | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
the US has used in conflict, and targeted a network | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
We are so proud of our military, and it was another successful event. | :00:33. | :00:53. | |
Also this morning: Unions representing 500,000 teachers claim | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
schools in England face the worst cuts for 20 years, | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
even though the Government says it is spending a record amount. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Two bank holidays just two weeks apart means two million of us | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
This morning, I'm taking a look at whether it is any cheaper | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Morning from inside the Crucible, either famous table here, home of | :01:14. | :01:25. | |
the world Snooker championship for four decades and ahead of this | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
year's competition, when we will decide who will lift this famous | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
trophy, all the great and good of snooker will gather for a | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
celebration with over 900 fans, as they look back on 40 years of drama. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
It might seem like a dog's life spending your day in the office. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
We will discuss why more companies are encouraging people | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Very good morning to you. Alternating days of cloudy today, | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
sunny tomorrow. Same again on Sunday and Monday. A little bit on the | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
cooler side this weekend but when the sun is out it should still feel | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
quite doesn't. I will have your full Easter forecast coming in the next | :02:06. | :02:06. | |
15 minutes. First, our main story: | :02:07. | :02:06. | |
It is being reported 36 members of so-called Islamic State have been | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
killed, after the United states dropped the biggest | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
non-nuclear weapon ever used President Trump described | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
the operation to destroy a series of underground caves | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
as a very successful mission" Our North America editor | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
John Sopel has more. This is the GBU-43, | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
also known as a MOAB, a Massive Ordnance Air Blast, | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
or as it is more commonly known, The largest non-nuclear | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
weapon ever deployed. The target - so-called | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
Islamic State in Afghanistan. We targeted a system of tunnels | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
and caves that ISIS fighters used to move around freely, | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
making it easier for them to target US military advisers | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
and Afghan forces in the area. It is turning out to be a busy time | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
for the commander-in-chief. We are so proud of our military, | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
and it was another successful event. The tunnels and caves that were used | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
by the Taliban over 15 years ago This bomb was dropped | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
on a complex tunnel network in Nangarhar Province, | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
close to the Pakistan border, where a member of US special forces | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
was killed last week. But the actions brought a furious | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
tweet from Afghanistan's former It is not just the dropping | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
of a massive bomb on Afghanistan. In just over a week, | :03:26. | :03:38. | |
President Trump has ordered the missile strike on Syria, | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
a naval battle group to head to the Korean Peninsula, and he has | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
restated his commitment to Nato. Some of Donald Trump's | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
supporters are asking, whatever happened | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
to the isolationist, America-first President | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
of the inauguration? Unions representing 500,000 teachers | :03:53. | :04:03. | |
say schools in England are facing the worst real-term | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
cuts for 20 years. The NUT and NASUWT will discuss | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
what they say is a crisis in funding when they meet today | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
at their Easter conferences. But the Government says ?40 billion | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
is being spent on schools this year, Our education correspondent | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Gillian Hargreaves reports. St Martin's School in Essex | :04:18. | :04:29. | |
is a good school, but even here, it has become increasingly | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
difficult to recruit staff, At one stage, they had a science | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
teacher vacancy for more But there are also shortages | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
in maths and modern languages. I look at the pool of people that | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
are teaching in those areas, and the number of people that | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
are due to retire over the next ten years, and also the number of people | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
that are coming in that aren't actually a specialist in the subject | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
area that they're teaching, and I think that this is really | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
the thin end of the wedge. Teachers are gathering | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
for their conferences at a time There have been widespread protests | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
from parents and schools who say, without more money, class sizes | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
will go up and teaching posts The Government points out ?40 | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
billion is being spent on schools this year, the highest | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
cash figure ever. But teachers say that hasn't taken | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
into account rising costs, like pay, pensions, | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
and the running costs of schools. The funding pressure is also | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
beginning to hit parents, something of a concern | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
to the unions. Half of parents are saying they're | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
making at least one financial contribution to the school's funds, | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
in order to "enhance resources", whatever that means, | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
at school level. And many parents are finding that | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
even the cost of a school uniform is something which they | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
can no longer afford. There is also much disquiet | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
about Government plans to introduce Teachers argue money set aside | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
for them would be better spent However, the Government says this | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
new wave of grammars would benefit | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
less-well-off families. Foreign ministers from Syria | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
and Iran are holding talks with their Russian | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
counterpart in Moscow today. It comes a day after the Syrian | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
leader denied using chemical weapons President Assad said evidence had | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
been fabricated to give the US an excuse to attack a Syrian | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
government airfield. A future Labour government says it | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
would bring in a law preventing More than 1,000 local | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
branches closed in the UK Labour says lending to small | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
businesses decreases in areas where banks close, | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
but the Conservatives said their support for small | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
businesses, including start-up A clean-up operation | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
is under way in New Zealand, after a powerful storm | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
swept across the country. Cyclone Cook was expected | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
to be the worst storm Hawke's Bay on the east | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
coast was worst-hit, with hundreds of families | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
forced from their homes, road closures, | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
and downed powerlines. The accommodation booking service | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
Airbnb is improving the security of its app and website, | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
after a BBC investigation found people's homes had been burgled | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
by criminals using stolen accounts. The scammers changed some personal | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
details and used them Our technology reporter | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Chris Foxx has more. Like millions of people, Christian | :07:22. | :07:35. | |
had let out his home on Airbnb while he was out of town as a convenient | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
way to make some extra money. He had done so for years without a problem, | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
but on his birthday his home was burgled. I got that horrible text | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
message saying someone is in the account and it is not me, because my | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
account had been compromises. Christian thought he had let out his | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
home to a verified profile, somebody who had verified government and | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
navigation and had positive reviews from previous bookings. But the | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
account had been stolen. The had changed that name, photograph and | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
contact details on the profile but kept Airbnb's verified badge. And | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
Christian is not alone. The BBC has spoken to two are the people who | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
were robbed this way, and three others who had their accounts | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
stolen, and Airbnb's Facebook page has dozens of comments from people | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
who had their accounts compromises. There are many ways attackers could | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
have been hijacking Airbnb accounts. They might be a trick people into | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
handing over their passwords. But there are ways Airbnb could have | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
defended against this. We put our security concerns to Airbnb. The | :08:34. | :08:46. | |
company said... Those changes include two step verification when | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
somebody logs in from a new device, and text message alerts if somebody | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
changes your profile information. At four Christian, the changes come too | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
late. He says the whole experience has left him with a bad feeling, and | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
he may not use Airbnb again. It is expected to one of the busiest | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
days on the roads today, with around 20 million car journeys | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
expected over the Easter weekend. Millions more will be heading | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
abroad, as they make the most of two bank holidays in the | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
space of two weeks. Catrina Renton is in East London | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
this morning, with the latest. A lot of people going to be on the | :09:17. | :09:31. | |
roads and travelling, how do you think it is going to look? Well, | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
Charlie, I am on the A102 at the moment and it is a good time to get | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
away right now it is quite quiet, but that is going to change. Over | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
the weekend around 20 million journeys on the road is expected to | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
be taking, and the company which compiles data are saying you can | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
expect delays of double the time of your normal journey on the major | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
motorways, that would be the pinch points between 10am and 2pm, the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
time they say to try and avoid travelling. It is not just the roads | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
that are busy. The airports, as we have been hearing on the programme, | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
2 million people going away overseas on Easter break. The airports expect | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
this to be their busiest day of the weekend. The top destination being | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Spain as the favourite. On the railways and different picture. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
Network Rail see fewer passengers on holiday weekend as an opportunity to | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
get some work done. 200 engineering projects will affect journeys. | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
Trains to London, Manchester, Bath, Glasgow and Edinburgh are affected | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
and you should check to see what is affected before you head out. If you | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
are looking for a break from the busy travel on Easter Sunday, we can | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
expect a drop in the number of cars on the road before people had phoned | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
again on Monday. And if you want to know the local situation where you | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
are, watch the TV bulletins on your stations here, of course, on the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
BBC, and check out the local BBC radio stations. They will keep you | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
right up to date. But it looks to me like a good time to get away now if | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
you can. We will catch up with you a little later on, thank you very | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
much. Basically leave now is the advice, or an hour ago. | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
Nasa says one of Saturn's moons, known as Enceladus, may now be | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
the best place to look for life beyond earth. | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
Samples of the waters erupting from the moon's surface suggest it | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
has all the conditions needed for life. | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
The discovery was made through Nasa's Cassini probe, | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
which has been exploring Saturn since 2004. | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
And if that is something that excites you, and let's face it, it | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
is a tantalising prospect, we will be discussing it after 8am this | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
morning. What sort of life? Who knows? | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
It has been almost a year since so-called legal highs | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
were banned, but recent news coverage of people openly | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
using the synthetic drug Spice, in public, means it is under | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
Now, paramedics say the unpredictable effects | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
of the substances on users is making their job harder, | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
Dan Whitworth has more on this story. | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
A warning - his report contains images of drug taking. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
Spice was banned by the Government nearly a year ago, along with other | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
so-called highs, but that doesn't worry Adam and Derek. | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
Since the ban came in, it's easier to get ahold | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
of, and it is | :12:31. | :12:31. | |
Police in Manchester say they dealt with around 60 incidents involving | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
While the College of Paramedics, which represents 11,000 emergency | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
workers across the UK, says the use of synthetic drugs | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
is making treating people even harder. | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
Spitting, biting, punching, kicking, those things are what paramedics | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
So it's important for people to realise that this substance, | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
whatever it is you are taking, it could kill you. | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
Unfortunately that is what we are seeing, kids are dying. | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
It is a familiar problem for people at charities like Lighthouse. I have | :13:07. | :13:16. | |
been smoking spice for nine years. And it is a luxury. Three years ago | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
that is when my life started with spice. It has just ruin my life, | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
basically. The government says it will publish | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
a drug strategy shortly, aimed at stopping the use | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
of synthetic drugs like Spice, and it says anyone caught | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
using these kinds of drugs already Joining us now is Neil Woods, | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
a former undercover drugs police officer who is now the chairman | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
of Leap UK, which campaigns This has happened with similar | :13:45. | :14:08. | |
legislation in Ireland and Poland. People are taking it because it is | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
cheap. Pictures shown on the clip here of homeless people. These | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
people are not zombies. They are struggling to cope with life on the | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
streets. Having worked amongst homeless people and manipulating | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
them myself as an undercover police officer, I am sure that if I had to | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
live on the streets, I would not cope without getting high as cheaply | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
as possible and it would be the case with most people. We saw some of | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
those glimpses and people maybe saw that with their own eyes in high | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
streets, people taking Spice, other substances, and the unpredictable | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
effects they have. What can you tell us about that, especially to do with | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Spice? When you surrender a commodity to the black market, it | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
becomes adulterated. There is no control at all what is in it. So the | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
strongest possible chemicals are in it. It is financially worthwhile to | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
gangsters to sell the strongest product because it is the most | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
cost-effective. The economy of the black market makes drugs more | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
dangerous. That is why you are seeing more into acting effect, | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
unpredictable drugs. It is the same with wider drugs legislation, since | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
banning them they have become stronger, cheaper and more varied. | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
Is it and after effect of the tightening of legislation | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
surrounding marijuana? Well, cannabis is an interesting one. | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
People call this synthetic cannabis. It is not. People take it for a | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
headache and it is in the same chemical family as heroin but it is | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
not the same thing. It is far more dangerous than cannabis. It is safe | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
to say if it was regulated 15 years ago, synthetic cannabinoids, Spice, | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
would be around because it is a product of the prohibition. People | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
watching this, and I know you take a different view, one of the jobs of | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
administrations, of government, of lawmakers, is that you set laws up | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
to stop people doing things you don't want them to do. And you don't | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
want people taking Spice, so that is why the legislation is there. You | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
want to send out a statement of things you don't want people doing. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
You know people say that. That is the argument. How do you deal with | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
that thing, that if you make it legally available you are sending | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
the message it is something that is acceptable? Messages don't save | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
lives or reduce harm. The legislation as it has been, drug | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
laws and approaching drugs, is not working. Every time you ban | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
something it empowers the black market and makes the black market | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
more violent and more dangerous. Drugs can be dangerous. We need to | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
get them under control. That is why we at Leap UK, ex- military, ex- | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
operatives, have worked on the frontline with drugs. We are telling | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
you that we need to get this problem under control and you can only do | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
that by regulating. We have no control over it at the moment | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
because gangsters supply it. How many people, you know, distressing | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
images on public streets, shopping centres, bus stops. People in this | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
zombielike state - how many people should have been helped, could have | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
been helped with early intervention from mental health services? | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
Exactly. Clearly, these people need help. The way that we treat homeless | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
people is just horrific. Walking along the streets of Manchester | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
here, the numbers of people has increased so much. Even if you don't | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
care about these vulnerable people, think about the financial situation. | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
It is actually - policing drugs is the single is biggest thing in | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
policing. It is extremely expensive. It is cheaper to look after people. | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
If you invest in the mental health services, if you invest in | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
accommodation for these people, ask the police officers going to the | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
calls, time after time, like last weekend, what would they rather | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
spend time doing, I think they would rather be doing something which is | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
positive. OK, thank you for your time this morning. Undercover drugs | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
detective and now director of Leap UK. | :18:27. | :18:27. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
The main stories this morning: The Afghan military says 36 members | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
of so-called Islamic estate were killed after the US dropped | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
what it called the mother of all bombs on a network of caves. | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
Schools in England are facing the worst cuts for 20 years | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
according to unions representing half a million teachers. | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
But the government says it's spending a record amount | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
Here's Matt with a look at this morning's weather. | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
Good morning. A stunning shot this morning from a Weather Watcher in | :18:56. | :19:05. | |
Aberdeenshire, it sums up the Easter weekend. Sunshine, quite a bit of | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
cloud and what you is a little cool weather as well. Let's look at the | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
details today. It will be a cloudy day with plenty across the centre of | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
the UK, although some sunshine as you saw in northern Scotland, and | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
for southern England and the. Cloud in between for north Wales -- Wales. | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
Doubt whether to start the afternoon in Northern Ireland, sliding into | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
north-west England and Wales later. Northern Ireland will finish the day | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
dry and sunny with light wind. And where we have sunny spells in the | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
north of Scotland, Iraq showers to spoil it now and again, some of the | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
most dry weather in the north-east. For the north-east, for the | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
Pennines, across the western side, the afternoon his looking wetter | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
than this morning and the same for Wales. It won't feel great out | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
there. Southern England, the Midlands and East Anglia, we see the | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
dry weather. And with sunny spells maybe even a touch warmer than | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
yesterday. Here into tonight you will see some rain pushed through. | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
It won't affect everyone. Some of the gardens will only get a sip | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
rather than a drink of rain. As it clears, the skies clear and air | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
pushes in. The cold air means a touch of frost, across the | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
countryside, the Midlands northwards, and showers overnight, | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
continuing into Saturday. Strong and gusty winds. Quite a breeze across | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
the UK that will make it feel cool in cloudy moment. If anything, | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
Saturday will be sunny for the weekend with one or two showers here | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
and there. Temperatures around nine to 14, where they should be, but it | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
will feel cold if you are heading to the Scottish mountains on Saturday. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
Conditions are far from ideal, gales with subzero temperatures, leading | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
to a city windchill and, yes, snow on the mountains. We cut off the | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
feat of cold air into Sunday but weather fronts mean it is back to | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
cloudy weather on Sunday -- feed. The best sunshine, like today, | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
southern England, northern Scotland, in between cloud, at Kasyanov rain | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
and dry weather with temperatures lifting compare to Saturday. -- and | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
cloud and rain. There is bright weather also on Monday, sunny spells | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
for just about all, one or two showers here and there but most of | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
you will avoid them and still a cool breeze along the eastern coast of | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
northern England and eastern Scotland. Elsewhere, little in the | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
way of wind on Easter Monday, when the sun shines it will feel | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
pleasantly warm. Back to you both. A question for you, are you a pet | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
owner and, if you are, have you taken your pet to work? I am not. I | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
don't fancy taking it to work, would you? You haven't got one anyway. I | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
have brought my daughter to work. It is along the same line, not quite | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
the same. It didn't work very well. She is probably better trained than | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
most pets. We are dog owners. A .5 million. Would it be a good thing | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
for people to bring them to work? What do you think I am going to say? | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
We have sat here on the sofa with my dog. It was a disaster, it put me | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
right off my work. She was excellent and that is not true. She was | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
frightened of the dog trainer at the time. | :22:32. | :22:31. | |
Susannah Streeter has been finding out. | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
Brooke, Reggie, Max and Peggy are office at ease at Nestle in Gatwick. | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
The pets at work scheme proved so popular that by the end of the year | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
around 100 dogs past and assessment to gain their own staff pass. I | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
think some people did wonder how many dogs would actually come into | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
the office and whether we would have large numbers or packs of dogs | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
roaming the office. The reality is on any given day we probably have | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
between 20- 25 dogs in an office of 1000 people. And in fact it is very | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
rare to even hear a dog park in the office. They are here if you want to | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
find one. The dog don't just relieve stress, they also help build office | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
camaraderie. It has made me make friends. People come and talk to me. | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
They know my dog. And it opens doors. What about the time when she | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
needs to go to the loo? She starts to get up and pays around and look | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
at me. We have had the odd accident. Doctor a care is ?30- ?40 per day. | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
-- dog daycare. I have three of them. For me it is a big saving. | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Have there been fallouts with other dogs? Not that I have seen. They | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
love chasing each other around the park. You hear the odd Barca, that | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
is it. So, just how easy it is it taking your pet into the workplace? | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
-- bark. I have borrowed Monet to find out. This is the BBC. Come on. | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
-- Marna. This is the business unit. I am going for an editorial meeting. | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
Dow Jones on last night from the slide. Here we go. Here we are. | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
Claire, if you hear designer is as it is because we have a dog in this | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
morning's meeting. OK. Different. I am going to the studio now, down to | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
make up. I am going to give you a little bit too. I might need to | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
brush off a feudal pairs. Marna remained calmly inquisitive until | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
she saw the cleaning trolley. We have a little guest in today. | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
Marna's following me around. She is scared. Next, the BBC will studio, | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
we meet Debra Conolly, a dog specialist. You are gorgeous indeed. | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
Every office is different. Some are quiet, somehow the public in and | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
out. You need to be sure your dog has the right temperament and | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
recognise the signs your dog might be struggling. And make sure the | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
other people in the office have checked out to be sure they are not | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
afraid or allergic and take a bag of goodies for your dog to be | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
entertained. Interview over, it is lunchtime, and Marna can spend it | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
with me. And after her performance in the editorial meeting, I think | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
she deserves a treat, don't you, Marna? Come on. | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
Well, I don't know about you, but I think we have been replaced. Oscar | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
has been watching the programme, he is absolutely glued to that report. | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
Is he going to give me his paw? Oh, thank you, Oscar. He likes to hold | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
hands. Yes. If you are wondering who Oscar is, Oscar has been brought in | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
by his owner, Phil, who will talk to later, just about the story, is it a | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
good thing to bring your to work? It is worth saying that if you don't | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
like dogs, and, you know, a workmate brings in a dog, it won't work, will | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
it? Is Oscar going? No, he is fine. If you have pictures to share, | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
stories of the benefits of having a dog in the workplace, or another | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
pet. It is pets generally. Oh, the sofa is short. He is one of the best | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
behaved guests we have ever had. I love him. | :26:22. | :26:22. | |
Still to come this morning: How Hull is bringing out the hidden art lover | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
We'll be live in the Uk's City of Culture. | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
It is looking beautiful today. They are in fact Lego daffodils. They are | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
not quite real. They are clever. Very clever. | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
Let's get the news, travel and weather where | :26:45. | :30:02. | |
Now, though, it's back to Sally and Charlie. | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :30:06. | :30:17. | |
It is being reported 36 members of so-called Islamic state | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
were killed after the United States dropped what was described | :30:21. | :30:22. | |
as the 'Mother Of All Bombs' in Afghanistan. | :30:23. | :30:25. | |
The weapon is the largest non-nuclear bomb to have ever been | :30:26. | :30:27. | |
The target was a network of underground tunnels. | :30:28. | :30:36. | |
The attack has been condemned by the former Afghan president Hamid | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
Unions representing 500,000 teachers say schools in England are facing | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
the worst real-term cuts for 20 years. | :30:45. | :30:46. | |
The NUT and NASUWT will discuss what they say is a crisis in funding | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
when they meet today at their Easter conferences. | :30:51. | :30:52. | |
But the Government says ?40 billion is being spent on schools this year, | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
Unions say schools staff shortages are increasing, | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
and there is a reduction in vocational subjects. | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
I think funding is going to be the theme that dominates | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
the conversations, because around the country, class sizes | :31:08. | :31:09. | |
are going up, we are seeing arts, dance, drama, music being cut, | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
We are seeing schools that are having letters sent to parents | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
to ask them for money, to try and make up for the gap | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
the Government is causing in school budgets. | :31:21. | :31:28. | |
Foreign ministers from Syria and Iran are holding talks | :31:29. | :31:31. | |
with their Russian counterpart in Moscow today. | :31:32. | :31:33. | |
It comes a day after the Syrian leader denied using chemical weapons | :31:34. | :31:36. | |
President Assad said evidence had been fabricated to give the US | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
an excuse to attack a Syrian government airfield. | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
Nigeria says it is actively negotiating with the Islamist | :31:47. | :31:49. | |
militant group Boko Haram to free the Chibok schoolgirls | :31:50. | :31:51. | |
who were kidnapped three years ago today. | :31:52. | :31:53. | |
More than 270 students were seized from their dormitories, | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
and almost 200 of the girls are still being held in captivity. | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
Demonstrators will hold events later today in the capital, | :32:00. | :32:01. | |
Abuja, and in Lagos, to mark the anniversary. | :32:02. | :32:11. | |
A future Labour government says it would bring in a law preventing | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
More than 1,000 local branches closed in the UK | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
Labour says lending to small businesses decreases in areas | :32:19. | :32:21. | |
where banks close, but the Conservatives | :32:22. | :32:23. | |
said their support for small businesses, including start-up | :32:24. | :32:25. | |
A clean-up operation is under way in New Zealand, | :32:26. | :32:34. | |
after a powerful storm swept across the country. | :32:35. | :32:36. | |
Cyclone Cook was expected to be the worst storm | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
Hawke's Bay on the east coast was worst-hit, | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
with hundreds of families forced from their homes, | :32:44. | :32:45. | |
road closures, and downed powerlines. | :32:46. | :32:51. | |
It is one of the busiest travel weekends of the year, | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
Around 20 million car journeys will be made on the UK's roads | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
by Monday, with trips on major routes expected to take up | :33:00. | :33:02. | |
The M25, M6 and M5 are expected to be worst affected. | :33:03. | :33:10. | |
Up to two million are expected to fly away from the gridlock | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
for a trip overseas, with Spain being the top destination. | :33:14. | :33:15. | |
Nasa says one of Saturn's moons, known as Enceladus, may now be | :33:16. | :33:44. | |
the best place to look for life beyond earth. | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
Samples of the waters erupting from the moon's surface suggest it | :33:48. | :33:50. | |
has all the conditions needed for life. | :33:51. | :33:52. | |
The discovery was made through Nasa's Cassini probe, | :33:53. | :33:54. | |
which has been exploring Saturn since 2004. | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
We will be discussing that a bit later because people get excited | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
about the prospect of life elsewhere. And all of the | :34:03. | :34:06. | |
all-important bank holiday weather as well. Looking over my shoulder, | :34:07. | :34:17. | |
you can see Mike Bushell in a waistcoat for the start of the world | :34:18. | :34:21. | |
Snooker championship. Yes, good morning. Hush hush. The head of | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
World Snooker has dominated the table so far. He goes for an easy | :34:27. | :34:31. | |
read, lining himself up. I haven't had a look and so far. I am not | :34:32. | :34:37. | |
surprised, really, you are the chair of World Snooker after all. This is | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
the practice room at the Crucible, where players come ten or 15 minutes | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
before a session or a match. You missed the blue, so I will give ago | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
now. This is where they come before a session. If it is going badly, | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
like for Barry, they might come here during the mid-session interval to | :35:00. | :35:02. | |
try and get their eye back in. At this table is far too big for me, so | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
I was literally going for pot luck there. And Barry, take it away | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
again. While Barry clears the table, I will tell you about the rest of | :35:12. | :35:13. | |
the sport. Elsewhere in sport, | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
it was a frustrating night for Manchester United, | :35:17. | :35:18. | |
as they dominated the first leg of their Uefa Cup quarter-final with | :35:19. | :35:21. | |
Anderlecht, but could only draw. Jose Mourinho's side went | :35:22. | :35:23. | |
ahead before the break, thanks to this goal | :35:24. | :35:26. | |
from Henrikh Mkhitaryan. But they missed some good chances | :35:27. | :35:28. | |
to extend their lead, and five minutes from time, | :35:29. | :35:30. | |
Leander Dendoncker grabbed The second leg is at | :35:31. | :35:33. | |
Old Trafford next week. If you arrive into a situation | :35:34. | :35:40. | |
where mathematically it is not possible, top four, | :35:41. | :35:43. | |
then easy decision. Rest them, and go with them | :35:44. | :35:44. | |
in the Europa League, But at this moment, | :35:45. | :35:47. | |
we are in a position where we have If we win both matches | :35:48. | :35:52. | |
we are direct into the top four. After Elinor Barker won silver | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
in the women's race on Wednesday, Chris Latham won bronze in the men's | :35:57. | :36:11. | |
scratch race at the cycling Track World Championships, | :36:12. | :36:14. | |
in Hong Kong. It is his first international | :36:15. | :36:16. | |
medal as a senior rider, In Super League, Warrington are now | :36:17. | :36:19. | |
unbeaten in three matches, as they try to recover | :36:20. | :36:29. | |
from their terrible start They ran in three tries | :36:30. | :36:31. | |
against bottom club Widnes, the second from Jack Hughes, | :36:32. | :36:34. | |
as they won 19-10. Back at the Crucible, this is the | :36:35. | :36:46. | |
World Championship trophy, it is 90 years old. On the winners' list, | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
winners from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Republic of | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
Ireland, Canada, Australia, not as yet a Chinese name but that could | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
change. There is a feeling that they are the rising superpower of | :37:03. | :37:10. | |
Snooker. I have been to meet Ding to find out more. | :37:11. | :37:11. | |
In a nation of over 1.3 billion people, one man is mobbed | :37:12. | :37:15. | |
Ding Junhui is treated like a movie or pop star. | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
He is one of the most recognised faces across the whole of Asia, | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
because this is the man who sparked a Chinese snooker revolution. | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
To escape such constant attention, he moved to Sheffield, | :37:26. | :37:27. | |
home of the World Championship, where he can lead a relatively | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
I met him this week for a frame at the city's Star Academy, | :37:31. | :37:43. | |
where his private practice room is a world away | :37:44. | :37:46. | |
from all the attention, the 5 million followers on social | :37:47. | :37:48. | |
media, and the 210 million who watched his run to the final | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
The little kids come and ask me how to be like you, | :37:53. | :38:04. | |
and I am very pleased to answer the questions. | :38:05. | :38:06. | |
So yes, I know it is - how boring when you practise. | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
He is certainly not alone anymore in Sheffield. | :38:10. | :38:17. | |
Along with fellow star Marco Fu, they set the trend. | :38:18. | :38:20. | |
Thanks to the likes of Ding and Marco Fu, there is now a steady | :38:21. | :38:23. | |
stream of players coming to dedicate themselves to training, | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
at these academies specially for Chinese players. | :38:27. | :38:35. | |
Also a good Chinese community, lots of Chinese restaurants. | :38:36. | :38:39. | |
It has become a mecca for Chinese snooker players. | :38:40. | :38:46. | |
It is easy to see why China is the new force in snooker. | :38:47. | :38:55. | |
Massive investment in facilities back home, and 70 million people now | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
In five years, I think Chinese players will take over, | :38:59. | :39:07. | |
as the standards are very high at the moment, but they can only | :39:08. | :39:11. | |
Ding's success is rubbing off on so many. | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
He has already won the UK championship and the Masters, | :39:15. | :39:24. | |
but ever since he started playing pool in China, | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
aged eight, the world title has been his burning ambition. | :39:28. | :39:29. | |
On TV I see Steve Davis, they are all legends in snooker. | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
I think, I want to win these titles when I grow up. | :39:34. | :39:52. | |
And if you want the documentary about Ding Junhui, it is now | :39:53. | :39:55. | |
on the BBC iPlayer, and it is called Enter the Dragon: China's Snooker | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
Well worth a watch as well and Jamie Broughton will have a BBC News | :39:59. | :40:09. | |
special tomorrow at lunchtime. You can see how bad Jamie and -- Barry | :40:10. | :40:18. | |
and IR, because look how few balls we have cleared. First of all, 40 | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
years. The Snooker World Championships have been here for 40 | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
years. Why did it settle at the Crucible? Why did it become the | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
home? A historic story, because the promoters of the championship, Mike | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
Waterson's wife came to the Crucible, went home and told her | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
husband I have found you the perfect venue for the Snooker, and from such | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
openings big things grow. I think the year before it had been in | :40:48. | :40:50. | |
Manchester in a not particularly pleasant arena. Everyone, at the | :40:51. | :40:56. | |
moment they walk through the doors here, they feel this is special. And | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
it has stayed special ever since. It almost is a part of British | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
eccentricity that we are still in a 900 seat venue when we could sell | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
10,000 tickets a day. But it has developed this feeling for the | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
players, and as I say, I have been here for 40 consecutive years, and | :41:15. | :41:18. | |
still yesterday, when I arrived, the hairs on the back of my neck went up | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
when I walked inside. Obviously this is the practice room, but the | :41:23. | :41:25. | |
audience, the fans are so close to you, breathing down your neck. With | :41:26. | :41:31. | |
two tables in play, when we start on Saturday, I think you get more room | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
in your local billiard hall to play on than you would on the greatest | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
stage on earth. So it is very special, it is a unique tournament, | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
and as you said, with Ding, in places like China, a global sport | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
like never before. Do you think they will dominate in years to come? I | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
was in China last week, it is just hundreds of thousands of players. It | :41:55. | :41:57. | |
is part of the school curriculum, you see these 15 or 16-year-old | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
kids. We have one of the greatest first round matches, the 17-year-old | :42:02. | :42:06. | |
player. His first year on tour and he is playing at the Crucible. Give | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
them five years, these European players are really going to have to | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
get their head down. And a special celebration today on 40 years since | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
you came here, so former stars coming down the green carpet for a | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
bit of a party. It is party time, a celebration. Everybody is here. | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
There will be a few memories of Alex Higgins, and people who played such | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
an enormous part in making this such a special occasion. But for me, and | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
Steve Davis, our life has changed here. When he won the world title | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
changed his entire life, and it came back to the Crucible. You can watch | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
it live on iPlayer, the BBC News website. I will try and get a ball | :42:51. | :42:57. | |
down. Let me run around here. I don't think you will have much | :42:58. | :43:00. | |
success with that. You have completely... Well, not snookered me | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
but I have to get around that blue somehow. I think that is why it is | :43:06. | :43:17. | |
the practice room, don't you think? And you can keep those shoes on, | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
have you copped those shoes? Let's see Mike's choose! Show us your | :43:22. | :43:31. | |
shoes. Look at that. How am I supposed to concentrate with shoes | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
like that? Joe Johnson at the Crucible, when he won the world | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
title, wore shoes of a similar ilk. They are not making much difference | :43:41. | :43:45. | |
to my game. Your game is rubbish, the same as mine. In Q4 both -- | :43:46. | :43:53. | |
thank you both very much indeed. You are watching | :43:54. | :43:56. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. The main stories this morning: | :43:57. | :43:57. | |
The Afghan military says 36 members of so-called Islamic estate | :43:58. | :44:00. | |
were killed after the US dropped what it called the 'Mother | :44:01. | :44:03. | |
Of All Bombs' on a network of caves. Unions representing 500,000 teachers | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
claim schools in England face the worst cuts for 20 years, | :44:08. | :44:09. | |
even though the Government says In those snooker halls, they won't | :44:10. | :44:29. | |
care about the weather, but a lot of other people will. | :44:30. | :44:29. | |
Here's Matt with a look at this morning's weather. | :44:30. | :44:32. | |
The first big holiday weekend of the year. It will be one that produces | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
quite a bit of weather variety. This morning, lots of cloud from a | :44:38. | :44:48. | |
Weather Watcher shot showing you, there are breaks in Cambridgeshire | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
and southern parts. The same for northern Scotland. In between, thick | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
cloud, northern England and Wales threatening the odd spot of rain | :44:59. | :45:01. | |
this morning and the odd heavy burst. It will turn damp around | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
lunchtime in Northern Ireland. The wet weather spreads into north-west | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
England and west Wales. North of it we will see sunshine at times in | :45:10. | :45:13. | |
central and northern Scotland. It is punctuated by the odd shower, | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
pushing through on the breeze, and Northern Ireland will brighten up in | :45:18. | :45:20. | |
the evening so that you finish with some sunshine here. Northern England | :45:21. | :45:23. | |
will be cloudy throughout. West of the Pennines most likely to see the | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
bulk of the rain, especially this afternoon, the same for northern and | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
western Wales, the wrangle term persistent. Southeast Wales, largely | :45:32. | :45:36. | |
dry. Much of southern England, Midland and East Anglia will see | :45:37. | :45:40. | |
some breaks in the cloud, so some sunny spells and a touch warmer than | :45:41. | :45:43. | |
yesterday. A breeze adding to the chill, taking the weather front | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
southwards, so a lot of gardeners parched in southern England, and it | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
is more an sip than a drink tonight, some avoiding the showers. And as a | :45:52. | :45:57. | |
weather front pushes through, temperatures drop, so a Kauto Star | :45:58. | :46:00. | |
to Saturday morning with frost around, maybe ice in Scotland with | :46:01. | :46:03. | |
showers to start the day. If anything Saturday is more sunny than | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
today. The odd shower here and there. Chiefly for Scotland. One or | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
two Ellsworth. Most of you will avoid them and be dry throughout. | :46:14. | :46:16. | |
The breeze will be a cold one -- elsewhere. 9- 14 degrees where we | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
should be for the time of year. And this is the sunshine, it will be | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
pleasant enough, although don't be fooled if you are heading to the | :46:26. | :46:28. | |
Scottish mountains. While it might be nice on the valleys, horrible | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
really come back to winter, gale force winds, so the Winchell and | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
even snow at times. The cold wind will ease into Sunday -- wind chill. | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
We are back to the weather front from the Atlantic, so cloudy weather | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
on Easter Sunday. Some sunshine in northern parts of Scotland and a | :46:47. | :46:49. | |
little sunshine at times in southern England. In between, like today, | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
cloud, AK shall rain and temperatures up on what we saw on | :46:54. | :47:00. | |
Saturday. -- some rain. And then, showers around across eastern areas, | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
dry weather on Easter Monday, and a further west you are with wind | :47:05. | :47:11. | |
light, once in the sunshine it should feel nice enough. So, | :47:12. | :47:14. | |
something for everyone, even the gardeners. Back to you both. Thank | :47:15. | :47:21. | |
you. It is a bit mixed over the weekend. Maybe you are thinking of | :47:22. | :47:28. | |
going away. Sean is explaining why we have bank holiday weekend close | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
together. Lots of people going away and it won't be as expensive if you | :47:33. | :47:37. | |
go abroad. Once you get there. Overall cost, with the weaker pound, | :47:38. | :47:42. | |
has made things more expensive automatically to go abroad, but it | :47:43. | :47:45. | |
has helped the domestic market as well. People this weekend travelling | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
around the UK and not leaving. Good morning. | :47:51. | :47:50. | |
An impressive 6.6 million of us are set to have a trip away over | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
I'll be off to the seaside after the show. | :47:55. | :48:00. | |
But it's a pretty big rise, according to tourism body Visit | :48:01. | :48:03. | |
Over half a million more overnight stays than last year. | :48:04. | :48:06. | |
And bookings for tourists coming to the UK from now until the summer | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
Anthony Pickles is from Visit Britain and joins me now. | :48:11. | :48:18. | |
Morning. Is it fundamentally a weaker pound being great for the UK | :48:19. | :48:27. | |
tourism market? What we are seeing at the moment is a window of | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
opportunity with great tourism products across the UK which is | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
improving all of the time alongside the weaker currency and better value | :48:36. | :48:41. | |
abroad. What we have to do is make sure people overseas understand that | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
we have got - that we are better value, the best value in 11 years or | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
more, so if I say to you, what is the exchange rate with Canada, you | :48:52. | :48:54. | |
may have a vague idea as the business correspondent, maybe not. | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
Likewise, people overseas don't know that, so we have a job working | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
overseas to get their message across that we are great value for money. | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
Would you say this is a great opportunity but we are not really | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
cashing in on it? We have to do more because, who knows, currencies | :49:13. | :49:14. | |
fluctuate hugely right across the world and, as I said, we have a | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
great window, so we have to cash in. Two bank holiday is close to each | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
other, is it good for the B, hotels, tourist places in the UK, or | :49:26. | :49:30. | |
does it mean people go away for one of them? You said 6 million of us | :49:31. | :49:35. | |
are getting away overnight this weekend and I am sure people will be | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
taking the opportunity to go away this Easter and take time off, so | :49:41. | :49:44. | |
close to the May holiday, so we have heard more people are going away, | :49:45. | :49:48. | |
something like one third waiting to see what the weather is like, so | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
let's hope the weather forecast and the sunshine pushes people to take a | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
trip away. We have been talking a lot about Hull this morning, so what | :49:57. | :50:03. | |
can we learn about the idea of focusing on one particular area as a | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
place for culture and to go and spend time? So, Hull is the City of | :50:08. | :50:13. | |
Culture and what is happening is, with a full year of activity, | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
whether it is cultural, art, people have heard more about Hull and they | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
are going there. And from the organisers themselves, more and more | :50:23. | :50:25. | |
people are going to see what is going on. And having the City of | :50:26. | :50:29. | |
Culture is an opportunity to get people to places they might not | :50:30. | :50:34. | |
visit. Not every city can have that. That is true. It works for Hull at | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
obviously it is not straightforward for every single market across the | :50:40. | :50:41. | |
UK. Thank you very much indeed. If you are looking for somewhere | :50:42. | :50:49. | |
that you haven't gone too, there is plenty happening this weekend in | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
Hull. Yes, indeed, here is a live camera now. | :50:55. | :50:54. | |
Our Arts correspondent Colin Paterson is there for us this | :50:55. | :50:57. | |
daffodils that you can see if you're going to Hull. A brand-new addition | :50:58. | :51:10. | |
to the City of Culture, just in time for Easter, with a giant Lego | :51:11. | :51:15. | |
watering can as well. 1700 Lego daffodils. It is all part of the | :51:16. | :51:21. | |
idea of getting the exhibits to the City of Culture into the centre of | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
Hull. This is King Edward Square. The reason we have come to Hull is | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
this week they went 100 days as City of Culture, so we thought it was | :51:33. | :51:36. | |
time for Breakfast to catch up with what was going on in the city, and I | :51:37. | :51:38. | |
ended up in some unusual places. The place would have | :51:39. | :51:40. | |
spelt of carpet, overalls Hull, City of Culture, | :51:41. | :51:43. | |
where even taxis have been And it raises up, | :51:44. | :51:47. | |
by pumping a handle. For the next three months, | :51:48. | :51:55. | |
Wayne Jackson is presenting a show to an audience | :51:56. | :52:00. | |
of six in the back It is combining my | :52:01. | :52:02. | |
son's work and mine. Had you ever done | :52:03. | :52:21. | |
anything arty before? Venues have been popping | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
up all over the city. This week's opening, Flood: A State | :52:26. | :52:37. | |
of the Nation Parable, performed on a floating stage | :52:38. | :52:39. | |
in the middle of a residential area. These people in their flats have | :52:40. | :52:42. | |
been looking on us for six weeks. We have been chatting to them, | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
we have been to local primary schools, to sing a song in the play, | :52:47. | :52:50. | |
we have a little boy called Jim who comes every date on his way | :52:51. | :52:54. | |
from school and asked And who should arrive at that moment | :52:55. | :52:57. | |
but Jim for his daily inspection, proudly sharing the title the crew | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
have bestowed on him. It's a small example of how people | :53:03. | :53:04. | |
of all ages have been getting involved since Hull's year | :53:05. | :53:15. | |
in the spotlight began on January the first, with a musical | :53:16. | :53:18. | |
firework display. Other highlights so far have | :53:19. | :53:21. | |
included the visit of enormous sculpture the Blade | :53:22. | :53:26. | |
and the Humber Bridge being given a musical accompaniment | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
by Opera North. It has been a magical start | :53:32. | :53:32. | |
to the year with hundreds of thousands of residents getting | :53:33. | :53:35. | |
involved and people from all over coming | :53:36. | :53:38. | |
to experience Hull. Those who have lived in Hull | :53:39. | :53:39. | |
all their lives have And there is still eight | :53:40. | :53:42. | |
and a half months to go. We are hearing about how their has | :53:43. | :54:00. | |
been an attempt to get people who live in Hull to get involved and | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
here is Trevor and Maggie. What made you want to get involved in the City | :54:05. | :54:08. | |
of Culture Wasilla it is an historic event for Hull and I am so proud of | :54:09. | :54:16. | |
the city. Maggie, what else have they got you doing, apart from | :54:17. | :54:20. | |
wearing light blue? Talking to people, encouraging people to look | :54:21. | :54:23. | |
and see what we have got here as well as enjoying all of the extra | :54:24. | :54:27. | |
bits outcome as well, and the daffodils. What kind of things when | :54:28. | :54:30. | |
people come to ask questions, what are they wanting to know about? | :54:31. | :54:36. | |
Things like where does this come from, what does this mean, what do | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
you think it is, is it really art, like when we had the Bla, it opened | :54:41. | :54:47. | |
a lot of discussion with people -- Blade. We were talking with the | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
people who work coming to see what's going on, and they were sharing | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
their views with us. Just briefly, tell me about this huge mural, what | :54:57. | :55:04. | |
is it? 1 million pieces of glass reflecting Hull's maritime history | :55:05. | :55:07. | |
from someone called Alan Boyce. Thank you. Phil Batty from Hull | :55:08. | :55:16. | |
2017. Who is paying for this? We have 80 partners who have brought it | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
together and what is great is it is the people behind the city that has | :55:21. | :55:24. | |
made it possible, that energy that has brought it together. Just | :55:25. | :55:29. | |
briefly, more than 250 days to go, what are the highlights? I am | :55:30. | :55:35. | |
looking forward to the opening of Skin and the house of King and | :55:36. | :55:40. | |
Queens as part of LGBT 50. If you are looking for somewhere to go, | :55:41. | :55:44. | |
Hull is an option and there is just time for me to go and attend to the | :55:45. | :55:48. | |
daffodils. Oh, me as an eight-year-old would have loved it. | :55:49. | :55:51. | |
I think the grown-up Colin quite likes it as well! Like something | :55:52. | :55:56. | |
from a storybook. It is a Lego watering can and daffodils or. | :55:57. | :56:00. | |
Someone has spent a lot of time doing that. Much more | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
If you'd like to know more about Hull, you can watch Britain's | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
UK City of Culture on the BBC News Channel today at | :56:09. | :56:11. | |
coming up, we are talking about bringing your pets to work and some | :56:12. | :56:21. | |
of you have sent your pictures. Here is Midge the greyhound, oh, look, in | :56:22. | :56:27. | |
Sheffield. Thank you for sending these in, this is Jack who goes to | :56:28. | :56:34. | |
the British army offers. This is in Germany. And as you can see, he has | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
designed chair, a special chair. Archie goes to school in Blackpool | :56:40. | :56:43. | |
every day and he has helped to bring down the stress levels according to | :56:44. | :56:51. | |
make. -- Meg. Look at his face. And Lottie demands lots of cuddles as | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
part of the team. That was a picture sent in by Joe. So, it works for a | :56:56. | :57:01. | |
lot of people. There is something about a wonky ear that is so cute. | :57:02. | :57:04. | |
More on the programme, indeed we will have a dog on the sofa to see | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
if it brings a good vibe. I think that | :57:10. | :57:09. | |
Plenty more on our website at the usual address. | :57:10. | :00:29. | |
This is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
America drops what's known as the mother of all bombs | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
on so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan, reportedly | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Seen here in tests, it's the largest non-nuclear device the US has used | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
in conflict and targeted a network of caves and tunnels. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
We are so proud of our military. And it was another successful event. | :00:53. | :01:09. | |
Good morning, it's Friday 14th April. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Also this morning: Unions representing half a million teachers | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
claim schools in England face the worst cuts for 20 years | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
even though the Government says it's spending a record amount. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Never mind the search for life on Mars, NASA says one of Saturn's | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
moons may now be the single best place to look for life beyond earth. | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
Good morning from inside the Crucible they'll be holding a | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
celebration to celebrate four decades later with players past and | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
present ahead of the main competition which starts tomorrow. I | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
will be speaking to the world champion Mark Selby. | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
It might seem like a dog's life spending your day in the office. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
We'll discuss why more companies are encouraging people | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
Good morning. Hopefully the sunshine will arrive on cue when you need it | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
this morning. It's a weekend full of weather variety, some cloudier and | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
cool moments. Today one of those cloudy days and rain. I will have a | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
forecast in 15 minutes. It's being reported 36 members of | :02:21. | :02:33. | |
so-called Islamic State have been killed after the United States | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
dropped the biggest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat in | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
Afghanistan. The operation to destroy a series of | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
underground caves in a remote region of eastern Afghanistan has been | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
described as a very successful mission. | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
a Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or as it is more commonly known, | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
The largest non-nuclear weapon ever deployed. | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
The target - so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan. | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that ISIS fighters used | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
to move around freely, making it easier for them to target | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
US military advisers and Afghan forces in the area. | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
It is turning out to be a busy time for the commander-in-chief. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
We are so proud of our military, and it was another successful event. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
The tunnels and caves that were used by the Taliban over 15 years ago | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
This bomb was dropped on a complex tunnel network | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
in Nangarhar Province, close to the Pakistan border, | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
where a member of US special forces was killed last week. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
But the actions brought a furious tweet from Afghanistan's former | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
It is not just the dropping of a massive bomb on Afghanistan. | :03:46. | :03:58. | |
In just over a week, President Trump has ordered | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
the missile strike on Syria, a naval battle group to head | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
to the Korean Peninsula, and he has restated his commitment to Nato. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
Some of Donald Trump's supporters are asking, whatever happened | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
to the isolationist, America-first President | :04:10. | :04:10. | |
Unions representing half a million teachers say schools in England | :04:11. | :04:25. | |
are facing the worst real term cuts for 20 years. | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
The NUT and NASUWT will discuss what they say is a crisis in funding | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
when they meet today at their Easter conferences. | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
But the Government says ?40 billion is being spent on schools this year, | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
Our education correspondent Gillian Hargreaves reports. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
St Martin's School in Essex is a good school. | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
But even here, it has become increasingly difficult to recruit | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
staff, particularly in specialist subjects. | :04:55. | :04:55. | |
At one stage, they had a science teacher vacancy for more | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
But there are also shortages in maths and modern languages. | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
I look at the pool of people that are teaching in those areas, | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
and the number of people that are due to retire over the next ten | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
years, and also the number of people that are coming in that aren't | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
actually a specialist in the subject area that they're teaching, | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
and I think that this is really the thin end of the wedge. | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
Teachers are gathering for their conferences at a time | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
There have been widespread protests from parents and schools who say, | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
without more money, class sizes will go up and teaching posts | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
The Government points out ?40 billion is being spent on schools | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
this year, the highest cash figure ever. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
But teachers say that hasn't taken into account rising costs, | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
like pay, pensions, and the running costs of schools. | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
The funding pressure is also beginning to hit parents, | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
something of a concern to the unions. | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Half of parents are saying they're making at least one financial | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
contribution to the school's funds, in order to "enhance resources", | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
whatever that means, at school level. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
And many parents are finding that even the cost of school uniform | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
is something which they can no longer afford. | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
There is also much disquiet about Government plans to introduce | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
Teachers argue money set aside for them would be better spent | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
However, the Government says this new wave of grammars | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
would benefit less-well-off families. | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Foreign ministers from Syria and Iran are holding talks | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
with their Russian counterpart in Moscow today. | :06:29. | :06:29. | |
It comes a day after the Syrian leader denied using chemical weapons | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
President Assad said evidence had been fabricated to give | :06:35. | :06:43. | |
the US an excuse to attack a Syrian Government airfield. | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
The lawyer of a man who suffered a broken nose and lost two teeth | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
when he was dragged off a plane in Chicago says it's likely | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
he will take legal action against United Airlines. | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
Several passengers filmed Dr David Dao being forced off | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
the flight, bloodied and injured by Chicago aviation police | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
after he'd refused to leave the overbooked flight. | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
At a press conference Mr Dao's daughter said it's been a difficult | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
What happened to my Dad should have never happened to any human being, | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
We were horrified, and shocked and sickened, to learn what had | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
happened to him, and to see what had happened to him. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
A future Labour Government says it would bring in a law preventing | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
More than 1,000 local branches closed in the UK | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Labour says lending to small businesses decreases | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
in areas where banks close, but the Conservatives said | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
their support for small businesses, including start-up loans, | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
A clean-up operation is under way in New Zealand after a powerful | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
Cyclone Cook was expected to be the worst storm | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
Hawke's Bay on the east coast was worst hit with hundreds | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
of families forced from their homes, road closures and | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
The accommodation booking service Airbnb is improving the security | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
of its app and website after a BBC investigation found people's homes | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
had been burgled by criminals using stolen accounts. | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
The scammers changed some personal details and used | :08:26. | :08:26. | |
Airbnb said it had already been working on the changes. | :08:27. | :08:36. | |
It's expected to be one of the busiest days on the roads | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
today with around 20 million car journeys expected over | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
Millions more will be heading abroad as they make the most of two bank | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
Catrina Renton is in east London this morning with the latest. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
It looks really nice and quiet where you are at the moment but it's not | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
expected to stay that bay, is it? That's it, at the moment it's a good | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
time to get away. As you said, over 20 million car journeys expected | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
over this weekend and while it's a good time to go now, the company | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
that's been compiling the data for us say that between 10 and two is | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
when the pinch points are going to be, they're advising to get away or | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
wait until after They're saying the journeys could | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
double in time on major motorways. Many of these people are also going | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
to be going to airports, airports are expected to be very busy this | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
weekend. Today the busiest day over the weekend with over two million | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
people going overseas and the favourite destination there being | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
Spain. Other things, the Network Rail, are taking the opportunity | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
because over bank holiday weekends they tend to be quieter than normal, | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
to get work done, so engineering projects on around 200 routes, | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
trains to London, to Manchester, to Bath, Edinburgh and Glasgow, they'll | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
be amongst those affected and you should check with the operator | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
before you start your journey. If you are looking for a wee break and | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
relaxing drive, Sunday is the day for that because traffic will be | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
down on Easter Sunday. If you want to find out more about the local | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
situation where you are watch our bulletins where you are and listen | :10:31. | :10:31. | |
to BBC local radio. Thank you very much. We are going | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
further afield next. It's 750 million miles from earth, | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
but the American space agency NASA says one of Saturn's moons, | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
known as Enceladus may now be the best place to look | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
for life beyond earth. Samples of water erupting | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
from the ice-covered moon's surface suggest it has all the conditions | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
needed for life. The discovery was made by NASA's | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
Cassini spacecraft which is coming to the end of a 13-year | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
mission to Saturn. Our science editor David | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
Shukman can explain. For over a decade Cassini has | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
shared... A NASA video promoting a mission | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
that keeps making astonishing A spacecraft called | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
Cassini has focussed on one of Saturn's moons, | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
Enceladus. Beneath its icy surface is a deep | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
ocean and great jets of water blasting out of it contain | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
ingredients needed for life. In fact, NASA scientists now say | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
that on the floor of the ocean there may be hydrothermal vents | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
like these on earth making hydrogen So conceivably this becomes one | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
of the likeliest places on the solar We're joined now by astrophysicist | :11:45. | :11:54. | |
Chris Copperwheat. Now, Chris, you can go to this | :11:55. | :12:06. | |
planet and maybe live there as long as you can swim? Yes, it would be | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
very wet, yeah. When we talk about life on planets in the solar system | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
we always think of Mars and all of that, but these moons these icy | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
moons in many ways are better candidates to live on, they have | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
oceans, conditions underneath the ice is probably very much like at | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
the bottom of our deepest oceans, on the ocean floor here. So, given the | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
evidence we have just heard and what they've said, why wouldn't there be | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
life there? Well, this is a good question. Everything seems to be in | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
place. We have always known, it's been talked about in science fiction | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
for decades these are possible sources for life, and now we are | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
finally putting pieces in the puzzle. We have seen the evidence of | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
the water and the complicating molecules and the key find something | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
the hydrogen, which is the food source. We see a complicated | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
structure of life, a huge diversity that feeds on the energy from this | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
hydrogen reaction so everything is in place. The next step is going out | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
there with the right equipment to look for the bio markers. What | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
exactly does that mean, what exactly are they looking for? Well, | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
ultimately, so, what we are talking about here is chemical reactions. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
The chemical processes that we know on earth supports life. The next | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
step would be to search for the actual components, basic building | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
blocks of life, the amino acids and that sort of stuff we know are | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
required, so different equipment for that. There is an upcoming mission | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
to, not the moon here, but one that is perhaps more famous, the moon of | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
Jupiter, Europa. It's going to have a different set of equipment and a | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
radar that can look under the ice and equipment that can analyse this | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
water in more detail as it flies through. At that point do you get a | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
definitive answer and we have found this chemical reaction and this | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
means life? At some point it becomes incontrovertible. It feels like we | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
are getting closer all the time. This is an exciting time. When this | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
mission launched n the late 90s, when I was at school, and now we are | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
at the end of its life and this is the Crowning achievement of the | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Cassini mission and when it was launched no one would have expected | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
this sort of result, it was there to look at Sturn. -- at Saturn. My | :14:39. | :14:48. | |
non-expert question of the day! Why do we always assume that life can | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
only be formed according to the principles that have happened on | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
earth? You are saying, we look for all the factors that happened on | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
earth, it could be completely different, couldn't it? Why do we | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
assume it has to be like it was here? You are right, yeah. This is | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
it. It's like the old Star Trek thing, it's life, Jim, but not as we | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
know it. It's easier to look for life as we know it, because we know | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
we have one example, one data point where all the conditions, we know | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
those conditions produce life. So, we have an entire universe to study. | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
We are overwhelmed with data. A good place to start is to look at the | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
place where we know the conditions can support life. But you are quite | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
right, life as we don't know it could exist in any number of | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
different environments. There is a new catch dz phrase, life as we | :15:41. | :15:41. | |
don't know it! It is hard to know the things we | :15:42. | :15:58. | |
don't know. What are your predictions for the weather? | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Fairly mixed to say the least, something for everyone. Some parts | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
of the country are starting drier and bright, the sun was just picking | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
through the cloud and Twickenham a short while ago, but grey skies for | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
some this morning. For Good Friday, southern Scotland, Northern Ireland, | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
North Wales and the North Midlands particularly cloudy. It turns dump | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
around lunchtime across Northern Ireland and into the afternoon, | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
north-west England and North and West Wales. Most staying dry south | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
of that, cloud thin enough to allow sunshine now and then. Sunny spells | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
in Scotland and Northern Ireland through the afternoon. Some showers | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
here and there, particularly across the Highlands and Islands. | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
Temperatures still down in single figures. North-west England, North | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
and West Wales will be getting heavier and more persistent rain | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
this afternoon, the hills in particular. Away from that, the odd | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
spot of rain, much of south Wales, southern England, the Midlands and | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
East Anglia staying dry through the day with some sunshine, it might | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
feel a touch warmer than yesterday even in the breeze. | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
The rain from northern England north and West Wales will push eastwards, | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
giving some gardens are welcome sip rather than a drink of water. Not | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
everyone can see that before the cloud and the showers gradually | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
depart. Quite a chilly night, a touch of frost and some gardens in | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Some ice and | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
showers in Scotland. Saturday will have sunny skies, a few showers but | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
very isolated. You will be lucky to see them, unless you are in the | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
north and west of Scotland, weather showers will be less frequent. | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
Temperatures between nine and 14 degrees tomorrow but feeling cool in | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
the breeze, nice enough in the sunshine. If you are in the Scottish | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
valleys tomorrow, do not be fooled, it will feel more like winter in the | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
mountain tops. Severe wind-chill and a little bit of snow. Into Sunday, | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
back to the cloudy weather. Weather fronts pitching from the Atlantic. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
Northern Ireland, northern England and Wales and the Midlands and East | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
Anglia and the south-east will have this weather front, which could | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
produce rain. Sunshine in the south-western for the northern half | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
of the country, feeling pleasant, as it will wake you have the sunshine | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
and eight. There will be some showers through the east of the | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
country, but dry and sunny moments to enjoy. With winds lighter, | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
particularly in the West, feeling warmer. The best place to be this | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
weekend, probably Spain and Portugal. | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
Nice and sunny and warm. Oh, great! We have been talking about going | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
abroad... But we are not going there! But maybe to cheer us up we | :18:53. | :19:07. | |
could bring in a pet. There are around 8.5 million dogs in the UK | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
and you might see them as part of the family. If you miss them when | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
you are at work, why not take them in? Around one in ten businesses say | :19:15. | :19:25. | |
they have the dog friendly policy. Susannah Streeter has been finding | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
out if more should do the same. Brooke, Reggie, Max | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
and Peggy are office buddies The Pets at Work scheme proved | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
so popular that by the end of the year around 100 dogs passed | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
an assessment to gain I think some people did wonder how | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
many dogs would actually come into the office | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
and whether we would have large numbers or packs | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
of dogs roaming the office. The reality is on any given day | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
we probably have between 20-25 dogs And in fact it is very rare to even | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
hear a dog bark in the office. They are here if you want | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
to find one to pet. Dog don't just relieve stress, | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
they also help build What about the time | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
when she needs to go to the loo? She starts to get up and paces | :20:00. | :20:13. | |
around and looks at me. Have there been fallouts | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
with other dogs? They love chasing each | :20:17. | :20:31. | |
other around the park. So, just how easy it is it | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
taking your pet into the workplace? Dow Jones on last | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
night from the slide. Claire, if you hear some noises | :20:43. | :20:55. | |
it is because we have a dog I am going to the studio | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
now, down to make up. I am going to give | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
you a little bit too. I might need to brush | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
off a few hairs. Marna remained calmly inquisitive | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
until she saw the cleaning trolley. Next, the BBC Studio, we meet | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
Debra Conolly, a dog specialist. Some are quiet, some | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
have the public in and out. You need to be sure your dog has | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
the right temperament and recognise the signs your dog | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
might be struggling. And make sure the other people | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
in the office have checked out to be sure they are not afraid or allergic | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
and take a bag of goodies Interview over, it is lunchtime, | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
and Marna can spend it with me. And after her performance | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
in the editorial meeting, I think she deserves a treat, | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
don't you, Marna? Here with us now is Phil Campbell, | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
a dog behaviourist and trainer, You are a dog trainer, so your dog | :22:02. | :22:20. | |
Oscar has been accurately behaved. He has been to see us once before | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
this morning. ... Has been immaculately behaved. But not all | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
dogs would be as common as environment? No. You had to pick and | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
choose your animal, your dog. Oscar is a prime example of the type of | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
dog you can take to work, he is relaxed and pretty good in almost | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
any environment. If you have a young dog you have to T Eaves them in, if | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
you get a rescue dog, obviously let the dog settle in a little bit | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
first, take the dog into work for short periods, see if it takes to | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
the environments, being approached by people. Noises, some dogs do not | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
cope well with noises. Oscar does not cope very well with gruff men's | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
voices, shouting. If I am watching sport on TV, I accept the room. The | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
commentary? No, me shouting at the television! I might raise my voice | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
and he will slowly toddle off into the kitchen. Oh, thanks, Oscar. It | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
is lovely being at work and everything but I am completely | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
distracted. I had loads of clever questions for you but now all I can | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
think about is how cute Oscar is. That is a potential obstacle with | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
the dog in the workplace. And not everyone is fond of dogs. There are | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
people who plainly just don't like dogs. People are allergic, some | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
people are frightened. It does not suit everybody. It is a cultural | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
thing, some people don't like dogs around, it is not for everybody. You | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
have to way that up, put a question out there, as the boss. And you need | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
the type of job where at a certain time of day you can say I need to | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
walk the dog around the block, not everybody can do that. The gob if | :24:13. | :24:24. | |
you have a dog in the office and you decide you had to get paperwork from | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
the office next door and the dog starts creating and howling, maybe | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
that environment is not for the dog. Taking your dog to work should not | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
be a fix for separation anxiety. Is there anything you can suggest | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
intensive training, what do you need to be able to get them to do? | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
Socialisation is truly important for any dog, whether it is a young dog | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
or a rescue dog. Socialisation in many different environments, people, | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
noises, if there is a telephone ringing in an office, I had a case | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
where the dog starts howling and barking when the telephone goes. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
That would be bad if you worked in a call centre! Stay with us for a | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
second. Does Oscar watch television? From a distance, he is not big on | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
it. TV programmes with animals. Late-season dog pictures. Morris is | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
a big favourite. David sent in this picture. Gizmo goes to the office | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
and even has his own security pass. Very cool. Dawn's dog keeps everyone | :25:32. | :25:41. | |
entertained at work. And Caroline's puppy has lifted the office mood, | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
they love taking it in turns to go for walking breaks. When I brought | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
my own pet into work, there was a little bit of a tussle in the office | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
at about who would take her for work. Quite a bit of competition. | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
If you have a very big dog it is necessarily an issue. Most of those | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
dogs are small. If you have a great Dane... It is an issue? It is | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
doable. You had to be in a situation where the office is big enough and | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
that the dog has a place where it can go to blacks. Is it fair to the | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
dog? If you're going to take your dog to the office, take it for a dam | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
good work... Walk in the morning. You can fill it full of high-protein | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
foods, met it out in the garden for five minutes and then expected will | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
chill out all day. -- you cannot fill it full of high-protein food. | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
Oscar was very well-behaved, you knew that would happen. He is | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
gorgeous and very calm. Is it important that the dog is of that | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
sort of nature? We took on Oscar as one-year-old, we worked certain | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
obedience exercises. The stay exercises teach the dog 's | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
self-control. It is all well and good getting him to do the things in | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
the kitchen for a bowl of food, can you do it in the park when you are | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
20 metres away and another dog comes. My job is to get Sally back | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
in the room. Speaking of distractions. Sally: are we at | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
work?! Lovely to meet you and thank you, Oscar. | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
Time for the news, travel and weather where you are. | :27:30. | :30:56. | |
Here's Matt with a look at this morning's weather. | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
Hello this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :31:02. | :31:03. | |
It is thought that 35 Islamic state fighters were killed when a US bomb | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
was dropped on a tunnel complex in Eastern Afghanistan yesterday. | :31:08. | :31:15. | |
It was the biggest non-nuclear bomb to be used in conflict. The former | :31:16. | :31:24. | |
Afghan President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai condemned the action as | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
inhuman. We can speak now to our reporter Harun Najafizada. Thank you | :31:30. | :31:36. | |
for your time this morning. What is the latest information you have | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
about the strike? Well, we know that the huge bomb was | :31:43. | :31:52. | |
dropped between two Mountains in a valley in eastern Kandahar province | :31:53. | :32:00. | |
close to the Pakistan border were IS fighters had carved their hideouts. | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
We know from the Afghan army that between 40 and 70 four militants | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
were in the area when the strike took place. The Afghan government | :32:11. | :32:17. | |
confirmed 36 militants have been killed and because the area was were | :32:18. | :32:24. | |
civilians left there is no collateral damage or casualties on | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
the civilian side. There has been criticism from some | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
quarters about the use of the bomb. It is important in terms of its | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
effect but politically it is a statement of sorts. Politically it | :32:37. | :32:45. | |
has divided Afghan society, especially that includes being | :32:46. | :32:47. | |
tested for the first time in Afghanistan. The former President | :32:48. | :32:55. | |
Hamid Karzai has called it inhuman and an unnecessary use of a heavy | :32:56. | :33:01. | |
weapon against Afghan territory without mentioning actually IS | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
militants' activity in that area. But the Afghan government in general | :33:08. | :33:13. | |
including the presidential palace have said it was a full coordination | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
with Afghan forces and that was done to protect the Afghan army and | :33:19. | :33:26. | |
special forces that are involved in a week-long operation against IS in | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
that area. They also say that because that area was, in a way, | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
full of IED and roadside bombs, that they could not get into fight Isis | :33:37. | :33:43. | |
face to face. They asked for US air support, and as a result of that | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
this happened. Thank you very much, Harun Najafizada, thank you. One or | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
two problems on the line so apologies for that. | :33:56. | :33:55. | |
In other news. Unions representing 500,000 teachers | :33:56. | :33:57. | |
say schools in England are facing the worst | :33:58. | :34:02. | |
real-term cuts for 20 years. The NUT and NASUWT will discuss | :34:03. | :34:04. | |
what they say is a crisis in funding when they meet today at their Easter | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
Conferences. But the Government says | :34:09. | :34:10. | |
?40 billion is being spent on schools this year - | :34:11. | :34:12. | |
the highest cash figure ever. Unions say schools staff | :34:13. | :34:14. | |
shortages are increasing and there is a reduction | :34:15. | :34:16. | |
in vocational subjects. Foreign ministers from Syria | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
and Iran are holding talks with their Russian counterpart | :34:22. | :34:23. | |
in Moscow today. It comes a day after the Syrian | :34:24. | :34:26. | |
leader denied using chemical weapons President Assad said evidence had | :34:27. | :34:29. | |
been fabricated to give the US an excuse to attack | :34:30. | :34:35. | |
a Syrian government airfield. Nigeria says it's actively | :34:36. | :34:38. | |
negotiating with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to free | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
the Chibok schoolgirls who were More than 270 students were seized | :34:43. | :34:44. | |
from their dormitories and almost 200 of the girls are still | :34:45. | :34:52. | |
being held in captivity. Demonstrators will hold events later | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
today in the capital, Abuja, and in Lagos | :34:58. | :34:59. | |
to mark the anniversary. A future Labour government says it | :35:00. | :35:01. | |
would bring in a law preventing More than 1000 local | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
branches closed in the UK Labour says lending to small | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
businesses decreases in areas where banks close, | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
but the Conservatives said their support for small businesses, | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
including start-up loans had It's one of the busiest travel | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
weekends of the year, Around 20 million car | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
journeys will be made on the UK's roads by Monday, | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
with trips on major routes expected The M25, M6 and M5 are expected | :35:32. | :35:34. | |
to be worst affected. Up to 2 million are expected to fly | :35:35. | :35:42. | |
away from the gridlock for a trip overseas, | :35:43. | :35:45. | |
with Spain being A clean up operation is underway | :35:46. | :35:47. | |
in New Zealand after a powerful Nasa says one of Saturn's moons - | :35:48. | :36:06. | |
known as Enceladus - may now be the best place to look | :36:07. | :36:09. | |
for life beyond Earth. Samples of the waters erupting | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
from the moon's surface suggest it has all the conditions | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
needed for life. The discovery was made | :36:18. | :36:19. | |
through Nasa's Cassini probe which has been exploring | :36:20. | :36:21. | |
Saturn since 2004. Life in water is what we were saying | :36:22. | :36:25. | |
earlier when we had our expert in. Possibly, we will see. | :36:26. | :36:36. | |
Who knows? 8:36am. Hopefully Mike will get on better than he did | :36:37. | :36:43. | |
earlier. He is at the Crucible in Sheffield ahead of the World Snooker | :36:44. | :36:45. | |
Championship. Do you really think I will play | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
against this man, the world number one, Mark Selby. We played Barry | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
Hearn earlier and we parted two balls between us, it was a | :36:55. | :36:59. | |
qualifying match in a way. We lost Mike's picture for a moment. | :37:00. | :37:06. | |
Can we go back? We lost you for a moment. It looked lovely and green | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
and then it went black. At least it went green like the | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
snooker table. Did you hear anything at all? I will start again. What I | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
said is they would not let me near a ball now which I wouldn't want to do | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
because I'm with the world champion, world number one, Mark Selby. Good | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
morning. I played Barry Hearn and hardly potted a ball earlier. We are | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
in the arena here where you won your second world title and there is the | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
trophy, wanting to get your hands on it again? | :37:38. | :37:40. | |
Yes, this year will be the hardest to be world champion. There is a lot | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
of players playing at the top of their game, Judd Trump, Ronnie | :37:45. | :37:46. | |
O'Sullivan, it will be tough but I will be in there fighting. We will | :37:47. | :37:52. | |
talk to you later. Let me tell you about the table, it is like the | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
grass at Wimbledon, it must be at the right temperature so there is a | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
little thing to warm the slate to be at all optimum temperature when they | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
come to play. Fascinating information about the table. | :38:07. | :38:08. | |
Elsewhere in sport, it was a frustrating night | :38:09. | :38:10. | |
for Manchester United as they dominated the first leg | :38:11. | :38:13. | |
of their Uefa Cup quarter-final with Anderlecht but could only draw. | :38:14. | :38:16. | |
You would still think they would be favourites to go through. | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
Jose Mourinho's side went ahead before the break thanks to this goal | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
from Henrikh Mkhitaryan, but they missed some good chances | :38:25. | :38:26. | |
to extend their lead and five minutes from time Leander Dendoncker | :38:27. | :38:29. | |
The second leg is at Old Trafford next week. | :38:30. | :38:32. | |
If you arrive into a situation where mathematically it is not | :38:33. | :38:35. | |
possible, top four, then easy decision. | :38:36. | :38:39. | |
Rest them, and go with them in the Europa League, | :38:40. | :38:42. | |
But at this moment, we are in a position where we have | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
If we win both matches we are direct into the top four. | :38:48. | :38:53. | |
After Elinor Barker won silver in the women's race on Wednesday, | :38:54. | :38:59. | |
Chris Latham won bronze in the men's scratch race at the cycling Track | :39:00. | :39:02. | |
It's his first international medal as a senior rider | :39:03. | :39:09. | |
and he could win another - he rides in the omnium tomorrow. | :39:10. | :39:11. | |
In Superleague, Warrington are now unbeaten in three matches | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
as they try to recover from their terrible | :39:16. | :39:18. | |
They ran in three tries against bottom club Widnes - | :39:19. | :39:23. | |
the second from Jack Hughes - as they won 19-10. | :39:24. | :39:26. | |
Back in the Crucible talking about the snooker this is the World | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
Championship Trophy first handed out in 1927, so it is 90 years old. | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
There are winners from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
Republic of Ireland, Canada, Australia but not yet a Chinese | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
name. That could soon change, Ding Junhui played Mark Selby in the | :39:46. | :39:48. | |
final last year and lost but they say China could be the next | :39:49. | :39:50. | |
superpower of World Snooker. In a nation of over 1.3 | :39:51. | :39:57. | |
billion people, one man Ding Junhui is treated | :39:58. | :40:00. | |
like a movie or pop star. He is one of the most recognised | :40:01. | :40:08. | |
faces across the whole of Asia, because this is the man who sparked | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
a Chinese snooker revolution. To escape such constant attention, | :40:14. | :40:16. | |
he moved to Sheffield, home of the World Championship, | :40:17. | :40:18. | |
where he can lead a relatively I met him this week for a frame | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
at the city's Star Academy, where his private practice room | :40:22. | :40:29. | |
is a world away from all the attention, the five million | :40:30. | :40:32. | |
followers on social media, and the 210 million who watched his | :40:33. | :40:35. | |
run to the final last year The little kids come | :40:36. | :40:38. | |
and ask me how to be like you, and I am very pleased | :40:39. | :40:54. | |
to answer the questions. So yes, I know it is - | :40:55. | :40:56. | |
how boring when you practise. He is certainly not alone | :40:57. | :40:59. | |
anymore in Sheffield. Along with fellow star Marco Fu, | :41:00. | :41:06. | |
they set the trend. Thanks to the likes of Ding | :41:07. | :41:10. | |
and Marco Fu, there is now a steady stream of players coming to dedicate | :41:11. | :41:13. | |
themselves to training, at these academies specially | :41:14. | :41:15. | |
for Chinese players. Also a good Chinese community, | :41:16. | :41:21. | |
lots of Chinese restaurants. It has become a mecca | :41:22. | :41:35. | |
for Chinese snooker players. It is easy to see why China | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
is the new force in snooker. Massive investment in facilities | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
back home, and 70 million people now In five years, I think Chinese | :41:46. | :41:48. | |
players will take over, as the standards are very high | :41:49. | :41:55. | |
at the moment, but they can only Ding's success is | :41:56. | :41:58. | |
rubbing off on so many. He has already won the UK | :41:59. | :42:05. | |
Championship and the Masters, but ever since he started playing | :42:06. | :42:19. | |
pool in China, aged eight, the world On TV I see Steve Davis, | :42:20. | :42:22. | |
they are all legends in snooker. I think, I want to win these | :42:23. | :42:30. | |
titles when I grow up. And if you want the documentary | :42:31. | :42:39. | |
about Ding Junhui, it's now on the BBC iPlayer, | :42:40. | :42:42. | |
and it's called: Enter the Dragon: | :42:43. | :42:44. | |
China's Snooker Star. Back here with Mark Selby, could you | :42:45. | :42:53. | |
see a time when the Chinese really dominate? Obviously you will try and | :42:54. | :42:57. | |
stop them but it is a real factor. I think so. In a few years' time they | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
will be four or five Chinese players in the top 16. I think Ding Junhui | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
will win the championship at some point, in my opinion I thought he | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
would have won it before now but there is lots of expectation from | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
China on him, such a big country and a lot of weight on his soldiers, | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
they have been talking about him winning for many years. It is great | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
for the sport. Of course, I played him for the first time in China when | :43:23. | :43:29. | |
14 and he was a wild card and he was some player and he has turned out to | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
be. Watching on telly, what strikes me is how close you are to the fans. | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
How does it feel when they are breathing down your neck so close, | :43:39. | :43:42. | |
it is such an intimate arena. The more you come here you get used to | :43:43. | :43:46. | |
it but the first time I came I was sat in my seat playing John Higgins | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
looking around and for the first three or four frames I was looking | :43:51. | :43:53. | |
around admiring the building and how close the crowd are. If you hit a | :43:54. | :44:01. | |
bad shot you can hear somebody grumbling behind you. The qualifier | :44:02. | :44:08. | |
who got through to play you in the first round tomorrow Fergal O'Brien | :44:09. | :44:11. | |
was involved in the longest ever frame, two hours and three minutes. | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
Yes, unreal. Fergal is a great player, great competitor, similar to | :44:18. | :44:20. | |
myself, you have to scrape him off the table, he's never beaten until | :44:21. | :44:24. | |
the final ball is potted so it will be a tough match. You can see how | :44:25. | :44:28. | |
Mark got on on social media on our Twitter paid, -- Twitter page. And | :44:29. | :44:38. | |
how I got on. It is on the red button, BBC sport website, with Mark | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
and former champions walking down the green carpet at 5pm and | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
celebrations start at 6pm for an hour and a half life on the red but. | :44:48. | :44:54. | |
Your reports have been brilliant, thank you, Mike. The snooker has | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
been awful. We are so mean! It is true. Just coming up to | :45:01. | :45:02. | |
8:45am. Over to Matt for the bank holiday | :45:03. | :45:04. | |
weather. Let's start with the weather | :45:05. | :45:15. | |
Watchers, this is the kind of bank holiday you want to see. Glorious | :45:16. | :45:21. | |
view here. But this is in a minority this morning. Much more waking up to | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
seems like this one up the road in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. One of | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
the cloudy days of the weekend but there are outbreaks in the cloud in | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
the south, not bad on the south coast. Some sunshine in Scotland but | :45:35. | :45:40. | |
in between reigning Northern England, Northern Ireland, North | :45:41. | :45:43. | |
Wales. Wetter around lunchtime for Northern Ireland and north-west | :45:44. | :45:46. | |
England and the north and west Wales. Northern Ireland brightens up | :45:47. | :45:49. | |
in the second half of the afternoon, could be in for evening sunshine. | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
And some sunshine and showers across central and northern Scotland, some | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
of the driest conditions in the north-east, around Aberdeenshire. | :46:00. | :46:03. | |
North-west England it gets down through the afternoon in the north | :46:04. | :46:06. | |
and west of Wales. Some outbreaks of rain most persistent on the hills. | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
Quite breezy. To the south and east of Wales, largely dry. South of | :46:13. | :46:15. | |
England, the Midlands and East Anglia will see breaks in the cloud. | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
It will a touch warmer than yesterday. Breeze pushing the rain | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
south, fragmented, not all the gardens will get a welcome drop of | :46:25. | :46:28. | |
rain across the South. That rain will clear most into the morning. | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
Clearing skies and the Midlands North, chilly start to the Saturday, | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
ever to frost in rural areas. Showers continue through the night | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
in Scotland. On Saturday, more will see sunshine and have a dry day. The | :46:42. | :46:46. | |
bulk of the country will have a dry day, only one or two showers dotted | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
around. Most likely north and west of Scotland, particularly over | :46:53. | :46:55. | |
higher ground. Cool breeze tomorrow, you will notice in the cloudy | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
moments. Nice in the sun tribe at a distinct chill in the air. Even with | :47:01. | :47:03. | |
the sunshine in the valleys making it feel like spring, get yourself | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
the mountains and there are force winds with subzero temperatures, it | :47:10. | :47:12. | |
will lead to a severe wind chill. On Scottish mountains tomorrow, there | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
could be snow. After sunshine on Saturday, cloudy weather on Sunday. | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
Sunshine towards the south west and northern England and Scotland but in | :47:24. | :47:27. | |
between, the cloud and outbreaks of rain. Northern Ireland, southern | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
parts of England, Wales and eventually towards East Anglia and | :47:32. | :47:33. | |
the south-east. Temperatures up on the face of it compared with | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
Saturday. Cloudy, sunny, cloudy and back to sunny on Monday. Some | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
showers in the east but the west, light winds and the best of the | :47:43. | :47:44. | |
sunshine it should feel pleasant enough with the strengthening | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
sunshine overhead. A bit of weather for everyone. Whatever your plans | :47:51. | :47:51. | |
are, enjoy. Weather can't make its mind up. It | :47:52. | :47:58. | |
can but it's Easter. A bit of weather for everyone, particularly | :47:59. | :48:02. | |
if you like snow! Maybe you are staying in the UK over the next few | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
days. How about going to Hull? You should, this is what we are | :48:08. | :48:09. | |
recommending this morning. Hull is taking centre stage this | :48:10. | :48:11. | |
year as it hosts a series of arts Just four months in to 2017, | :48:12. | :48:14. | |
and people have already been flooding in to see what the city | :48:15. | :48:18. | |
has to offer. Our Arts Correspondent Colin | :48:19. | :48:21. | |
Paterson is there for us this I recognise those poppies, we've | :48:22. | :48:28. | |
seen them somewhere before. Absolutely, the Tower of London in | :48:29. | :48:32. | |
2014, they have now come to visit Hull as part of the city of culture | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
celebrations. 100 days Hull has been city of culture, we thought it was | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
time for BBC Breakfast to find out what has been going on and I ended | :48:43. | :48:44. | |
up in some unusual places. The place would have | :48:45. | :48:47. | |
smelt of carpet, overalls Hull, City of Culture, | :48:48. | :48:49. | |
were even taxis are being And he'd raise us up by pumping | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
a handle up and down. For the next three months, | :48:54. | :48:57. | |
Wayne Jackson is performing his show, Now Then, about people's | :48:58. | :48:59. | |
memories of Hull to an audience of And the show is only 20 minutes, | :49:00. | :49:02. | |
so I'm doing it, kind It's combining my | :49:03. | :49:09. | |
son's work and mine. Had you ever done | :49:10. | :49:20. | |
anything arty before? And venues have been popping | :49:21. | :49:26. | |
up all over the city. This week's big opening, Flood, | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
a state-of-the-nation parable, is performed on a floating | :49:33. | :49:34. | |
stage right in the middle These people in their flats | :49:35. | :49:37. | |
have been looking down We've been chatting to them, | :49:38. | :49:45. | |
we've been to local primary schools, to say hello, to teach them | :49:46. | :49:48. | |
a song that in the play. We have a little boy called Jim, | :49:49. | :49:51. | |
who comes by every day on his way back from school and says, | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
"what are you doing?" And at that very moment, | :49:56. | :49:57. | |
who should arrive but Jim Proudly sharing the title the crew | :49:58. | :49:59. | |
have bestowed upon him. It's a small example of how people | :50:00. | :50:07. | |
of all ages have been getting involved since Hull's year | :50:08. | :50:17. | |
in the spotlight began on January Other highlights so far | :50:18. | :50:19. | |
have included the visit of enormous sculpture, | :50:20. | :50:25. | |
The Blade and the Humber Bridge being given a musical | :50:26. | :50:28. | |
accompaniment by Opera North. It's just been a magical | :50:29. | :50:34. | |
start to the year. We've seen hundreds of thousands | :50:35. | :50:36. | |
of residents getting involved, but also, people coming | :50:37. | :50:38. | |
from all over to experience Hull And those who have lived in Hull | :50:39. | :50:40. | |
all their lives have It's just framed everything up, | :50:41. | :50:44. | |
everything up, it's lovely. It's a pleasure, actually, | :50:45. | :50:48. | |
to walk around town. And there's still eight | :50:49. | :50:50. | |
and a half months to go. And one of the big theatrical | :50:51. | :51:03. | |
productions which will be opening on the 4th of May is Richard third at | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
the Hull trunk Theatre starring Matt Frazer, probably best known for | :51:10. | :51:13. | |
American hurry Storer and directed by Barry Rutter. Playing the most | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
famous disabled villain in possibly the whole of drama, how important | :51:18. | :51:24. | |
for you? Hugely important for me on many levels. Mostly, what an honour | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
to play one of the great roles in drama. Let alone be what I think, | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
apart from Catherine hunter who played previously, the first | :51:34. | :51:37. | |
disabled actor in Britain to play the most disabled villain in drama. | :51:38. | :51:42. | |
It's beyond my imagination. Such an honour. I'm so thrilled and proud to | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
be cast in the role and I hope to do the evil genius proud. Why do you | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
think it's been done so seldom by a disabled actor? I honestly don't | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
know. I'm flummoxed, I thought about it a lot, obviously and I have no | :51:57. | :52:00. | |
idea. All I will concentrate on is trying to honour the fact that I'm | :52:01. | :52:03. | |
going to be the first person to do it and do it to the best of my | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
ability. The man who cost do is Barry Rutter. I saw Richard III last | :52:08. | :52:12. | |
year, Ray Fiennes went for the limp and the hunchback, why did you go | :52:13. | :52:17. | |
for a disabled actor? I didn't. I didn't go for anyone with a | :52:18. | :52:21. | |
disability, Matt was simply a list of actors that I saw. I liked what | :52:22. | :52:26. | |
he did with the text, I cast him to speak the play first. And he brings | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
his own deformity with it and we both said it would be an insult to | :52:32. | :52:36. | |
the actor and the man, particularly, to put any other appendages of | :52:37. | :52:42. | |
disability on him. So he is what he is. And he brings that to the role. | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
Briefly, you set up Northern broadsides 25 years ago in the city | :52:47. | :52:51. | |
of Hull where you were born and grew up, try and sum up the change you | :52:52. | :52:57. | |
have seen this year. It's wonderful. The sense of people in bracing | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
what's happening in the festivities of the whole year has been a | :53:02. | :53:07. | |
revelation to me. They are embracing it with great, great heart and | :53:08. | :53:12. | |
creativity. Thank you. Before we go, quick word with Kofi smiles, the BBC | :53:13. | :53:17. | |
face of Hull 2017, you have a special programme four people who | :53:18. | :53:22. | |
want to catch up with what has gone on. You can hear from John Grant, | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
the American singer songwriter who is bringing his North Atlantic flux | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
at the end of April. You can hear from the Pioneer Baba trench, born | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
in Hull at the world's first women's boxing champion. A nice preview | :53:35. | :53:39. | |
about how Opera North managed to turn the Humber Bridge into a | :53:40. | :53:43. | |
musical instrument. It is a thing of beauty. I had a sneak peek of the | :53:44. | :53:48. | |
show and it will be great. It will be on BBC news at 12:30pm and | :53:49. | :53:52. | |
8:30pm. We will have to go for a party but breakfast so I can fill | :53:53. | :53:55. | |
you in on the information after this. I will take you after that. | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
12:30pm on the news channel to find out about what has been going on | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
Hull. It keeps going right until the end of the year. Thank you. Much | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
more from Colin over the next several months from Hull. | :54:10. | :54:12. | |
Interesting hearing that. Musical theme. | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
Music, with words written by Henry VIII's sixth wife, | :54:17. | :54:18. | |
Katherine Parr, is to be performed for the first time in more than 470 | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
years after the piece was discovered completely by accident. | :54:22. | :54:24. | |
The music and lyrics were found behind plasterwork | :54:25. | :54:26. | |
during renovations of Oxford's Corpus Christi | :54:27. | :54:27. | |
Today's performance is part of a concert by the Alamire choir. | :54:28. | :54:34. | |
In a moment, we'll speak to a man who's spent months resurrecting | :54:35. | :54:37. | |
the fragmented music, but first let's take a listen. | :54:38. | :54:47. | |
The chap you just saw conducting is with us. | :54:48. | :55:38. | |
Joining us now is David Skinner, the Conductor and Founder | :55:39. | :55:40. | |
That music, there is something about that music, you can feel it in your | :55:41. | :55:47. | |
feet, can't you? It resonates through the floor. It's music that | :55:48. | :55:54. | |
really inspired the composers of the early early 20th century, Britain | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
Fon Williams. It is no accident we call music of the 16th century the | :56:00. | :56:03. | |
golden age of the church music. They are right at the centre. Do you | :56:04. | :56:08. | |
really know for sure that Katherine Parr wrote those words? Absolutely, | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
beyond any doubt whatsoever. I've spent the best part of two years | :56:14. | :56:18. | |
researching the piece, reconstructing it, writing a full | :56:19. | :56:21. | |
academic article, which was published by Oxford press, had a | :56:22. | :56:24. | |
complete conference and got the thing together yesterday for the | :56:25. | :56:30. | |
very first time. That performance you here was 15 minutes of | :56:31. | :56:33. | |
rehearsal. Take us back, how the story worked out. A text, some | :56:34. | :56:40. | |
paperwork discovered, talk us through the original discovery. | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
Essentially, in 1978 Corpus Christi were undergoing some renovation work | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
in one of their rooms. They uncovered these fragments of 16th | :56:49. | :56:52. | |
century music. That is the bit we can see. That's it. It looks | :56:53. | :56:56. | |
enormous but the original size is about the size of your hand, it's | :56:57. | :56:59. | |
very small. They start inspecting this. The music was identified | :57:00. | :57:06. | |
immediately as being from Thomas Tallis. His grandest peas, six apart | :57:07. | :57:13. | |
piece which was a great tribute to the Virgin Mary. Originally Latin | :57:14. | :57:17. | |
words, probably composed in the early 1540s. It was this piece that | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
when Tallis left Canterbury and joined the Chapel Royal at around | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
1543, the same time that Katherine Parr married Henry III. They were | :57:26. | :57:35. | |
working together in Henry's was against Scotland and France. | :57:36. | :57:41. | |
Katherine Is a warlike text, the night 's arm against enemies. Some | :57:42. | :57:45. | |
of the fragments you here, the text was stand-up overlord and punish | :57:46. | :57:47. | |
these naughty people. She was the lyricist. -- stand-up, over, Lord. | :57:48. | :57:57. | |
It was a fairy li reasoned early work, they replace them with | :57:58. | :58:03. | |
Katherine 's. Was she supposed to be a nursemaid, didn't she just look | :58:04. | :58:06. | |
after him? That is what the history books tell you. She is known as | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
being quite a fine scholar. She published her own books. In 1544, | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
she published her first Psalms, prayers. It was meant as a companion | :58:16. | :58:20. | |
piece to Archbishop Cranmer's exhortation under branding litany. | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
Henry VIII always tended to call these processional litanies so that | :58:26. | :58:29. | |
he could stir the people in prayer. Traditionally, these were always in | :58:30. | :58:32. | |
Latin, so this is the first time they tried doing this project in | :58:33. | :58:40. | |
English. Parr it is very central to it with Tallis. Thank you for | :58:41. | :58:43. | |
explaining it to us. Interesting. An incredible find. | :58:44. | :58:48. | |
I'll be back tomorrow with Christian tomorrow from 6am. | :58:49. | :58:52. |